Monday, November 28, 2011

The Life of Smart Phones. Safe or No?

Smart phones are becoming a necessity around the world and are providing a large community for hackers to prey on. You can hardly go five minutes without seeing someone pull out an iPhone or pull out their newest Android phone, but is this a good thing for the public. Are we on our devices too often increasing our vulnerability to hackers? Is it not reasonable to believe that our phones can be hacked just like our home computers and lap tops? And to top it all off, should we be more careful about our smart phone usage?

Here's an article from USA Today regarding the issue:

1 comment:

ackeri said...

There definitely have been cases of smartphone's security being compromised. It would be interesting to know how much important information is kept on the average person's smartphone.