GetSafe Online, a website that promoted the concept of internet security, has warned the wireless mobile broadband consumers all over the world to spruce up their online security measures, citing an increase sighted in theonline banking fraud incidences.
Meanwhile, the report form the United Kingdom Cards Association shows an alarming increase by 14 per cent in internet banking fraud incidences in the year 2009. According to the body, the year witnessed a loss of GBP 59.7 million as a result.
Meanwhile, Get Safe Online’s managing director Tony Neate stressed the significance of anti-virus, operating system updates and spyware with internet related crimes becoming highly sophisticated as well as prevalent these days.
Neate further emphasised the importance of encryption of the connections used by the wireless mobile broadband consumers, as more and more people were getting attracted to such klind of intennet connections.
Neate also outlined the danger in people using others’ wireless access points, as these points should seldom be fully secure.