Crooks misusing police mobile apps

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Mobile phone applications are convenient tools for people to complete different tasks. Besides, it’s easy to install and use when you have a smartphone. In India, the police of Tumakuru had launched a mobile app to the public so people can use this app to report incidents online and get responses immediately. Although it brings benefit to the public but still have some criminal use the police app to hack people’s bank account by entering their phone number in the police app make a false report and get the victim duplicate SIM so the victim would not receive any alert message of money transaction. Therefore the victim money was transferred to the criminal account without and notice. There are some people misuse the mobile apps for crime action when it’s convenient to all users. To solve this issue the police department must discuss with the technical team to improve the app secure. (Gowhar, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

How safe are your mobile banking apps?

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People are relying more on using banking apps to do transaction and it is a chance for the fraudster to steal bank customer’s money through banking apps. Fraudster also creates a fake banking apps to steal personal details and use the phone number to access victim financial information. The malware which create by the fraudster will attack the victim banking apps to get personal details and misuse it. To prevent becoming a victim people must download the banking apps from the official channel and be aware of the message send by SMS which ask for bank account number. In addition, the banker can put in six or 4 digit authentication PIN for every customer and auto block the customer who not use the apps for a specific time. It’s a way to protect customer’s privacy. (vishwanathan, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

British mobile phone users’ movements 'could be sold for profit’

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Cybercrime use the hacker apps to hack public information and sell it for profit also an issue of misuse mobile apps. The cybercrime also use those information to blackmail people. Some of the mobile apps have location tracking function to provide the user details so the criminal will create the societal problem for instance kidnapping, swindle case and others. The solution of this issue are people close their location tracking function apps and not using the public WIFI to download any apps or register something that use personal details. Besides, mobile company should make contracts available before the point of sale and marketing to let people know what data had been collected and who will be shared with it so the violate personal privacy issues will be lessen. (Gayle, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

4 Legal Considerations for Building a Mobile App

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Legal considerations when developing a mobile application is important to protect the mobile applications from involving in complaints, negative media coverage and lawsuits. Four ways that prevent negative issues to happen are don’t hide the money factor if your application has a charge associated with it, evaluate the data drilling by clearly identify what user data your app is collecting and legalese is bad because lengthy boilerplate terms make the users difficult to understand and ignore it. Therefore, be user friendly way (Hutnik, 2011).

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By: Edward See Noor Yee