PDAs make easy pickings for data thieves
11:45 - Wednesday 29 May 2002 by The Register
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: pdas, make, easy, pickings, for, data, thieves Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: pdas, make, easy, pickings, for, data, thieves Category : Miscellaneous
PDAs make easy pickings; a survey reveals that private and corporate secrets are all too frequently left unprotected. One in ten peoples' bank accounts could be accessed if they lost their Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). That's according to a survey of PDA usage by mobile security firm Pointsec, which discovered owners commonly download substantial slices of their personal and business lives onto their PDAs - but leave the information unencrypted and without password protection.
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