{"id":900,"date":"2011-12-01T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","slug":"ieee-warns-cell-phone-users-about-free-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/ieee-warns-cell-phone-users-about-free-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE Warns Cell Phone Users about Free Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Music-Symbol-on-Mobile-Phone.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"Music Symbol on Mobile Phone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Music-Symbol-on-Mobile-Phone.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-901 lazyload\" title=\"Music Symbol on Mobile Phone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Music-Symbol-on-Mobile-Phone.jpg\"><\/a>The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is warning cell phone users against relying too heavily on free apps, predicting that 2012 will see an upsurge in cell phone hacking through the use of these small programs users can download.  Jeffrey Voas, an IEEE Fellow, has conducted research to determine the extent of the problem.  According to his results, for every 100 free mobile apps available, one of them contains malware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>These results only include malware that Voas was able to detect.  \u201cIt\u2019s easy to be victimized,\u201d Voas explained, pointing out that there are more than 2,000 apps currently available infected with one form of malware or another.  These apps are used on smartphones, a category that contains some electronics other than cell phones, which currently account for about one-fifth of the market for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Voas went on to explain the damage that malware-infested free apps can wreak, saying that they can result in \u201chackers accessing all of the information stored on your phone and transmitting it within two to three seconds.\u201d  Since the information can contain financial data as well as personal data related to your calendar and contacts, cell phone users should proceed with great caution when downloading free apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>As more people acquire smart phones, malware scanners and other software solutions will likely arise.  In the meantime, whenever you recycle used cell phone and purchase a new one, be careful about the apps you choose to download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is warning cell phone users against relying too heavily on free apps, predicting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IEEE Warns Cell Phone Users about Free Apps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/ieee-warns-cell-phone-users-about-free-apps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" 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