"Smartphone Analysis & Stats: Personal Use Leaves Work Smartphones Hackable"

Researchers conducted new research on what mobile phone brands and smartphone applications got targeted the most, through the year of 2019 in the United Kingdom. The data got collected trough analyzing monthly Google search data in 2019 on how many British users were searching for methods to hack different apps and phone brands. The researchers found that iPhone was the most targeted phone brand (10,040 searches), and Samsung came a distant second (700 searches). At the same time, Instagram was the most targeted application (12,410 searches), followed by  Snapchat (7,380 searches) and Whatsapp (7,100 searches). The researchers also discovered that owners with iPhones are 167 times more at risk of people trying to hack them than other phone brands.  Instagram app is also 16 times more at risk of getting hacked than a Netflix application.

SC Media reports: "Smartphone Analysis & Sats: Personal Use Leaves Work Smartphones Hackable"

 

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