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Mobile attacks

Mobile attacks

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Mobile attacks

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- As our industry changes, we as PenTesters and security professionals have to change with it. We're seeing a continual push toward the rise of mobile devices. Now, we've had mobile devices for a long time, but we're seeing with every passing month, it seems, more and more dependents on mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, they've been around for a long time. IoT devices are getting smarter and we have more and more wearables that are getting smarter. So we have more security vulnerabilities and we need to focus more on mobile devices. So anything that's not tethered physically to any physical location is a mobile device or anything that could be untethered is considered to be a mobile device. And even things such as our watches or our toaster ovens can be considered devices that are insecure. Now, clearly a toaster oven's probably not mobile, but the same ideas kind of impact any type of device in which is not the…

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