It’s no secret that mobile users are more likely to fall victim of phishing scams than users on desktop. That’s because most people have their mobile phones on them just about all the time, and are less likely to scrutinize messages sent through text or social media. Somehow, people are not as suspicious of short texts as they are of emails, and can be more ambivalent about mobile data security.

imei-sponsored yacht Miss Scarlet – an IRC design 52 foot racing yacht – is busy in the Bay of Islands on the north island of New Zealand at the CRC Race Week. As at day 2 after six races Miss Scarlett is in joint first place in the series.

According to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, of the organisations reporting data breaches in the last quarter, more than one third of them could put those breaches down to failings in their security culture.

News last week of the Quora data security breach should serve as a wake-up call for all businesses. The widely used question-and-answer website was compromised by a malicious third party, impacting the account information of approximately 100 million users, including names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.

By 2025, IDC research predicts approximately 80 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. While I’m sure this comes as no surprise to anyone involved in enterprise mobility, the growing number of mobile devices, models, platforms and operating system versions is making this job harder to manage and creates ever more complex enterprise mobility management challenges.