MOBILE PHONE HACKING: NOT A MATTER OF ‘IF’, BUT ‘WHEN’, SAY EXPERTS

With six of the world’s seven billion people having access to a mobile communication device (according to a UN study released in 2013), hackers have the ability to steal an quantum amount of personal data from banking information, contact details, social media passwords, and critical identity information such as birthdays, birth places and pets’ names.“It’s not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’ you are hacked,” according to David Toddington, the CEO of Canadian online intelligence training and service company Toddington International Inc. “We need ...


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