According to a new Juniper Research report, there are few smartphones and tablets properly protected from malicious software, viruses, and theft of sensitive data. Despite the high level of threats, nearly four per cent of mobile devices have additional security software installed in them, the report says.

The popularity of mobile devices is growing day by day, more and more people store their personal data on them or use them to access their e-mails, visit web sites, send important information or make online banking and shopping  transactions. That’s why it is becoming important for users to protect these devices the same way they protect desktop or laptop computers.

Juniper Research predicts an increase in security products for mobile phones and tablets. Nitin Bhas, the report’s author, claims, “We believe that the market for mobile security products will go mainstream by late 2013 as the vulnerability of data-centric mobile devices becomes more widely appreciated both in the business and consumer sectors. High-profile security alerts are likely to heighten the public’s awareness of this growing issue.”

However, a lot of people have already used different methods to protect the private data stored on their mobile devices. The majority of users prefer a VPN connection as it is one of the most reliable ways of privacy protection. There are a variety of VPN services available on mobile devices, among them are Android and iPhone VPN.  The best VPN services provide strong data encryption and minimise the opportunity of sensitive information theft.

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Recently, Motorola’s  and Sprint’s representatives announced that this summer the companies are launching a new dual-core Android 2.3 device called the Photon 4G. Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO, claimed that they have worked over the years “to bring top of the line devices to our customers across both prepaid and postpaid brands.”

The popularity of Android devices is increasing every day, and that’s why they became one of the major targets for hackers’ attacks. The fact that these smartphones don’t work perfectly with traditional Internet Security and Anti Virus/Malware packages only intensifies the interest of cyber criminals.

Moreover, many companies provide the employees with smartphones. According to Symantec’s own research, 62% of workers use these devises to get access to corporate files, especially when they are on vacation. This jeopardizes the security of the organizations.

There are several ways of minimizing the risk of Android devices being hacked. One of them is to allow the employees to use only those applications that are approved by the company's management. But the employees, in turn, could consider such regulations and limitations to be a violation of their rights.

That’s why the most preferable way is the use of VPN services to guarantee the security. All the modern smart devices support VPN and the Photon 4G is not an exception.  Nowadays there are various Android VPN services that provide high level of anonymity for their users, security in data transmission and protection of their customers’ Internet privacy.

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We have finally completed the long awaited Android 2.2 PPTP VPN Tutorial. Sorry for the delay but we are really busy (guess that this is good for us! ).

There were plenty of customers already using TUVPN on Android terminals (pretty easy to setup), but we wanted to give some more formal support to it.

This tutorial is for PPTP VPN. We will prepare a new one for OpenVPN over Android as soon as possible.

This tutorial has been prepared, thanks to one of our very kind customers!, on a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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