“8 mobile security threats you should take seriously.”

Kevin Du, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering & Computer Science, was quoted in the CSO Online story “8 mobile security threats you should take seriously.” Du, who studies security systems in smartphones, says that users should be be catious using out-of-date devices, as they rarely guarantee regular software updates that protect users’ information. “Many of them don’t even have a patching mechanism built in, and that’s becoming more and more of a threat these days,” Du says.