Several research studies point to customers being substantially much more vulnerable to social attacks on their smartphones. This is the case for email-based spear phishing, spoofing attacks that try to imitate genuine webpages, as well as attacks by means of social networking sites. The reasons for this originate from the way mobile devices are designed […]
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Mobile Telephony is Dying
The rapidly aggressive growth of technology today, accelerated by the pandemic, is witness to many fundamental and large-scale changes in our usage of internet-based services. Our primary business model of enabling phone calls and text messaging, also known as Mobile Telephony, is slowly dying out. There appears to be proof of the opposite, seeing surging […]
Data Security in the Cloud: Part 2
In Part 1 of the article, we discussed some major vulnerabilities stemming from cloud-sharing services, including opening emails from unknown addresses due to routinization, lack of a personal stamp on such emails causing lack of authenticity, unverifiable hyperlinks, and ultimately, the violation of cyber safety training drills. In Part 2, we will explore the solutions […]