Privacy, Security & Virus Information

With the smartphone becoming our 21st century credit card the need for security is increased

With the increasing realisation that the smartphone will gradually take up the role as credit card for its users, the important role of online security experts on how to analyse possible security breaches has become more pressing.

Already most of the World's leading credit and debit card companies have developed applications that will allow for transactions to be "wirelessly accepted " by stores, restaurants or even car parks. All kinds of transactions will be carried out using smartphones like instead of credit cards. Difficult though it may be to comprehend, carrying plastic, checks, coins and notes will soon be a part of history and even the smallest transaction will be carried out through our mobile telephone, or mini-computer as it has now become.

Known as contactless technology, this form of technology has captured the imagination of millions, unfortunately numbered among them are the cyber bandits who also see the opportunities that this breakthrough can bring for them.

While the technology is still very much in its infancy, developments are taking so fast in the smartphone market that there is no reason to suspect that within a year or two this technology should not have become common practice.

Where the security problems are expected to lie are in the fact that many of the people who own smartphones today fail to see that that compact box in their pocket or purse is a computer in very meaning of the word. Any form of computer is what hackers prey off. It doesn't matter its size they will use all of the dubious powers at their disposal to access the information contained therein and use it to steal as much as they can from those who have become so excited by the many advantages of this new technology that they have forgotten to take care of locking the back door.

For that reason smartphone owners old and new must take on board that fact that their security should never be compromised. And the only way that they can prevent this from happening is to keep their anti-virus software up to date and it's most powerful.

Top of the range anti-virus software costs money. That money should be regarded as an investment, and a wise one at that. The costs involved in insuring your security fades into insignificance when compared to the financial damage and inconvenience if you fall victim to a cyber attack on your smartphone.

 

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