Mobile Device Users' Major Susceptibility To Become Victims of Phishing Attacks and how to avoid. UOG0623001

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In the Age of Technologies in Bloom, Mobile devices is the one of the fastest growing and developing technologies that is overcoming physical personal computers, is widely used in various sectors and everyday life for examples personal use such as chatting, emailing, banking, shopping leads to information security threats such as phishing attacks. 

So in this blog, going to dive deeper into, what is the cause of  phishing attracts, how the phishing attack happens and how to avoid.

Mobile device usage is now widely spread across the world more than computer usage, because of low cost, multi tasking and easy carry on. 

According to Research Studies, Mobile devices are used by people of different ages, different educational proficiency holders, yet the knowledge of the way of using mobile devices are vary and poor, and this is cause that majority of mobile devices becoming victims of phishing attacks nowadays. 

The below graph and table shows that the age difference of people that use mobile phones and the verity of educational backgrounds. 

For an example, mobile devices users are not aware of the techniques of phishing attacks and might get phishing by clicking emails that sent by unknown, the emails and messages that labled as promotion or free gifts that ask for personal details to send money to personal bank account likewise.

Phishing attackers nowadays continue to look and find wats to penetrate mobile devices, cause of dependence on mobile devices usage increases.  

It is necessary to having proper guidance, awareness and knowledge that leads people to learn how the phishing attacks happens, the motivation of phishing attacks and how to avoid getting phishing. 

To solve this problem of happening, the society should increase the awareness programs that how phishing attacks happening, the techniques like the emails that received as spams are the main cause of getting phishing by phishing attackers. To avoid getting attacked by phishing attackers, use spam filtering validate softwares, use paid and validate virus guards, keep softwares up-to date, verifying sender informations,  be cautions of clicking links without verifying it.

According to Research that further studies on phishing attacks and information security threats can improve mobile device users' security and privacy, discover new types of threats and understand the way of using mobile devices and avoiding information security threats.

Author

Thathsandi . S . Jayamal

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References

[1] F. Ley Sylvester(2022). Mobile Device Users' Susceptibility To Phishing Attacks. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol 14, No 1, February 2022.