As the mobile devices getting smarter, the volume of data being stored is increasing. Basic data like phone contacts and your calender events have been the basic target for long time now, when it comes to privacy of the owner's data. Some time even the data stored may not be directly be the prime cause but rather can be loss incurring at times. Here I tell a story that happened a few days ago.
A. Bob looses his purse containing debit/credit cards and mobile phone (were in a jacket)
B. Eve finds those items and notices a contact named wife in the phone.
C. Eve makes phone calls with the same mobile and disconnects immediately for several times, then Eve Sends an sms using the same to wife mentining "Not able to reach you. With so many PINs, me confused with PIN for the bank card, please send it soon".
D. Alice who is Bob's wife notices the sms coming from her hubby and sends the PIN immediately.
E. Eve goes to ATM and withdraws enough money and throws all the found material.
In this case, useful information was the contact entry named wife. Ofcourse one could fool by keeping an entry like that wife(Associated to some junk phone number, better to those marketing guys). Here the owner has not stored any pin code or credit/debit card number, still mobile dcevice formed a major role in striking a breakthrough to the securty for the theif.
[will be continued...]
