Losing your mobile phone to thieves is very common, not just to the thief that will snatches it from your hand as you walk along the street, but from the ones who will slip it in their pocket when they find it where you carelessly left it. Unless you have mobile antitheft software in your mobile that will block it and wipe all the information that is held on it, then you are not just losing the phone but all the information contained inside it.

Obviously the theft of a business mobile phone, which may contain sensitive information, can cause problems for both the company that owns the mobile and the businesses they deal with (their information can be on the phone.)  Consequently, many companies are now turning to software developers like UMU Global to supply them with mobile anti-theft security programs.  These programs are not expensive and are very simple to activate.

Naturally it is not just company phones whose loss can cause problems for the owners, so getting some antitheft security on your mobile is sensible.  In the long term it may well be that the manufacturers of mobile phones build in mobile anti-theft which renders stolen phones permanently unusable. When or if this happens, it will make the theft of mobiles a useless action and when you drop your mobile in the street, the person who picks it up will hand it straight back to you.

Mobile phones and mobile technology have become a juggernaut that keeps developing faster. Today, we have smart phones and pocket PCs that have simply become a normal part of our everyday lives.

Everyone is shopping the mobile way, accessing the internet no matter where they are and simply conducting all manner of business on the move. Unfortunately, this also means that unscrupulous and criminal-minded individuals are going to extraordinary lengths to target all mobile devices with viruses.

They find innovative ways to steal your information and hijack your phone SIM cards to use for their own gain. Statistics show that roughly four out of every five mobile users are very concerned about becoming a victim of mobile viruses.

Protect your mobile integrity

The good news is that it is possible to protect your mobile operating systems against attack with effective mobile security software solutions. At UMU Global you have a variety of options such as UMU Scan – which is a mobile antivirus solution – UMU SpamSafe to keep spammers off your mobile devices and UMU StopThief.

The StopThief mobile security solution makes life difficult for the thieves in the event that your mobile phone is stolen. You can remotely, via SMS, wipe your data off your stolen phone to make sure it does not fall into the wrong hands and also lock your stolen phone.

In our modern world, it is simply not logical or wise to close your eyes to the mobile security risks whenever we use mobile technology. Nobody wants to go back to the days before mobile technology. However, nobody needs to be vulnerable either, and you don’t have to be with the correct mobile security solutions on hand.

The mobile phone has come a very long way in a quite short time.  Once the size and shape of a brick and the almost exclusive play thing of the sales representative, they are now small and sleek and most people in the UK over the age of ten own one.  Not only have they shrunk in size, but they have also grown in sophistication to the point where many of them are actually computers in our pockets.

Interestingly, although many of us use our mobiles to access the internet we have not made the mental connection that they are just as vulnerable to hacking as our PC or laptop.  Ask most people and they will admit they have no mobile security or mobile antivirus, but ask them if they have internet security on their computer and it will be a rare that a person says no.  Many will not even realise, until it is too late, that mobile antivirus packages or mobile security packages are available.

At UMU Global, for example, we have some brilliant security software packages available for mobile phones.  The software is inexpensive, especially compared to computer security software and easy to load onto your mobile phone.  Originally this type of program was designed for mobile phones used by businesses or government departments where security was of paramount importance.  However, we are all now aware of how simple identity theft can be and the problems that a virus, let alone a hacker, can cause in our desktop computers, so it is time we remembered the computers in our pockets and mobile antivirus software came to the forefront.

Just like any personal computer or laptop, your mobile phone can connect you to the internet.  You might not know that just like them, your mobile can be hit by a virus.  However, unlike your personal computer or laptop the chances are that you have no mobile antivirus.  In fact, unless the company you work for has provided your mobile phone and had a mobile antivirus program installed on it, you probably didn’t even know that mobile antivirus packages were available for your phone.

We all know that computers are likely to be attacked by viruses, and if it has happened to you then you will know that they can wipe out your computer before you even know what is happening, which is why it is rare these days to find a computer with no antivirus protection.  Having your mobile phone wiped out by a virus can be highly inconvenient to say the least, as anyone who has lost their phone will tell you.  So it seems thoughtless to risk it when mobile antivirus packages are quite cheap and easy to use.

As more and more of us use the internet via our mobiles, they will become the medium that the hacker uses to access your life because they are less sometimes secure than a protected computer.  Don’t let anyone into your phone to steal all your information and use it for their own purposes. Pick up a mobile security package from a company like UMU Global at the same time as you get your antivirus.

Spam has become an ugly word in the minds of most people and unless you live somewhere in a cave in isolation, spam touches your life in one or more ways each day. Spamming in all forms has become a worldwide scourge that frustrates people endlessly as they get bombarded with the most ridiculous junk mail, from cheap medicines to offers of poor-quality goods.

It is thus not surprising that many companies today exist solely for creating anti-spam measures to shield people from all of this. People that do not use spam filters and anti-spam measures for their email and websites are truly rare today. Unfortunately mobile phones, pocket PCs and PDA devices have not been spared from the abomination of spam either.

Rid yourself of spam

Mobile phones especially are very easy targets for spammers that can text messages to anybody and do so incredibly fast and with an almost endless capacity. At UMU Global we have developed mobile antispam solutions; UMU SpamSafe is an easy and simple to use application that works in two ways. It filters user specified numbers as well as unwanted messages that come from unknown sources.

The only effective way to rid yourself of unsolicited spam is a quality mobile antispam application, whether for your pocket PC or smartphones that run on Symbian S60 or Windows Mobile.

People often sign up innocently for ringtones or other notifications and offers that can turn their lives into a nightmare when they don’t read the fine print. Everyone should take the time to become mobile savvy so that they recognise spam techniques and then back that up with an effective mobile antispam application.