Better education required to counter 'culture of carelessness' and protect mobile data from hackers

Danny Palmer
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Security experts at Trend Micro roundtable debate how to fight threat of mobile data theft

More education is needed to counter a "culture of carelessness" within UK businesses that is leaving them vulnerable to computer hackers and other cyber threats. That was the key message from ex...

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