August 2016
Beginner
257 pages
8h 59m
English
Content preview from Network and Data Security for Non-Engineers
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People are increasingly relying on mobile devices to perform the majority of their daily tasks, leading many attackers to focus their efforts on mobile operating systems within the top-tier markets. Android has about 50% of that market, whereas Microsoft has 23% and Apple iOS has 21%. While these are different operating systems, the attack vectors to which they are vulnerable are quite similar. Nearly all smartphones allow the installation of externally supplied applications (apps). These apps, once downloaded to the phone, are the linked to messaging services capable of launching many forms of remote media. Many of the vulnerabilities associated with mobile devices were previously associated with non-mobile ...