Posts Tagged“phone tips”

Is Your Smartphone Secure?

Let’s start with a basic, harsh, platform reality: less than 10% of Android devices are encrypted, vs. almost all iPhones being encrypted out of the box. From Digital Journal: In a report published in the Wall Street Journal, security experts estimated that “fewer than 10%” of all Android phones currently have full device encryption enabled. On Android, the feature has to be manually configured and isn’t available on older phones, still representing a substantial portion of Android devices. Apple says hardware encryption has been a part of the iPhone since the 3GS. The big, new feature of Android Lollipop (currently,…