A mobile world
- At the end of 2009, the number of mobile telephone subscriptions equalled two-thirds of the world’s population [source: International Telecommunications Union]
- People spend a total of two million years on their mobiles every month [source: GSM Association]
- 13% of handsets sold in 2009 were smartphones; by 2015 almost all will be smartphones. [source: The Economist]
- 400 million people worldwide will be using mobile banking by 2013 [source: Juniper Research]
- Two-thirds of smartphone users do not protect the data on their devices. [source: getsafeonline.org]
- In the current state of telephony, malicious individuals can intercept phone calls, track user locations, potentially forge software updates, or directly compromise mobile devices. [source: Zane Lackey, Black Hat® Technical Security conference, 2010]
- Open GSM decrypt solutions can now run on commodity hardware. [source: Karsten Nohl, Security Research Labs]
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