The biggest social networking site on the internet is Facebook with millions of members throughout the world.  Social networking is now so popular that it has fuelled a massive increase in the numbers of internet-enabled mobile phones and now all the UK mobile phone companies are offering monthly prepaid packages that do not just offer free talk time and texts, now they can also include web time.  Where finding information on the web via your mobile failed to spark, the collective interest social networking has succeeded.

However, it would be interesting to ask all the people who connect their personal mobiles to the web whether they have internet security or mobile security on their phones.  Try asking the question for yourself and the answers will range from a blank look to people believing that because they have the right software on their PC or laptop it somehow gives their mobile antivirus protection.  Of course that is not true and the more we use the web through our mobiles the more we need mobile security.

Here at UMU Global, we have some great solutions to keep your mobile security up to date and at affordable prices.  Every day a new virus is found and then a solution to stop it infiltrating your computer or your mobile phone or pocket PC, so you need to make sure that you have the right software on your devices.  Make sure you have the most effective and up-to-date mobile security before it is too late.

15 January 2010

The growing threat of malware to mobile phones is once again making front page news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8459898.stm. Swapi.B, also known as RedBrowser, is code named for ‘let me dial premium numbers off your phone and let you pay for them’, and has surfaced as a Trojan dialler that infects the mobile, causing huge phone bills.

Many diallers, including Swapi.B, are contracted from porn sites which disguise themselves as software, video clips or helper programs and are sent to the phone via a text. This is how mobile malware can just instantly steal from you by making premium-rate calls or messages.

Whilst this threat is currently on the increase, there is a way to fight it and to protect yourself. Skelmersdale-based UMU offers a mobile security package that effectively deals with threats to your mobile by processing the malware and zapping it to oblivion.

CTO Peter Harrison said the increasing threat to mobile phones has enabled UMU to grow to international status, selling it’s product worldwide. “Many people go to extreme lengths to protect the data on their PC’s or laptops and yet leave the same data on their smartphones completely vulnerable.”

Will they become obsolete?

So, with the advent of the new super duper mobile phone with more and better applications, will there be a decline in our ‘taken-for-granted’ household / leisure items leaving them obsolete?

Items such as the clock radio, plugged in ready across the bedroom to ensure you get up in the morning…this is now being replaced by the next to the bed mobile phone which does the same job.

What about the radio itself? Many mobile phones now come complete with a radio, necessitating the demise of the good old portable.

And the CD player? I still carry my CD player around with me, comes in handy for playing the Susan Boyle CD I got for Christmas. However, the trend for iPod’s and now music phones such as the Sony Walkman take precedence over this old-fashioned contraption, which must be smaller, neater, and of course, the latest one available!

Finally, to the camera. Whilst Canon and Nikon fight diligently to retain their customers, even to diversifying into assisting mobile phone manufacturers with their technology, will this become a foolhardy exercise? The specifications on mobile phone cameras are increasing with each new product, and, with the increase of social networking such as Facebook, instant uploading of photos has become one of ‘THE’ things to do!

And what’s the future then?

Striding into 2010 sees more and more mobile users using their phones for storing information previously kept handy on their laptop or PC.

The verdict is left open…the advance of the mobile is imminent into all aspects of daily life!