by Jeffry Burt, eWeek
A study by Symantec found that almost everyone who finds a lost smartphone will try to access the personal and corporate data inside, and only half will contact the owner. According to a recent study by the security software vendors, people who lose their smartphones or other mobile devices in public have a 50 percent chance of ever getting them back. And even if the device is returned, the person who found the phone most likely rooted around in it for a while, checking out whatever personal and business data they could find. The lesson, according to Symantec, is to make sure that whatever data is on the phone is as secure as it can be. “[I]n many cases, regaining possession of a lost device may be a losing battle,” the Symantec researchers said in the report from the Symantec Smartphone Honey Stick Project. “But protecting the information on it does not have to be if the right precautions are taken. While devices can be replaced, loss of control over the information kept on these devices can result in far greater consequences.”
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