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Safe Searching on Your Mobile Device
The web and especially the mobile web can be a minefield of malicious links luring you to click, so bad guys can infect your device. Search engines do their best to filter these sites out but nefarious criminals have found ways to get their scammy pages to the top of search through a process called “Blackhat search engine optimization.”
Criminals create fake websites and then use the same techniques as legitimate online businesses regarding search engine optimization, marketing, and online advertising. They use keywords to boost rankings on Internet search engines, causing their spoofed websites to appear alongside legitimate websites.
It is also much harder to tell if a URL is legitimate since due to the limited screen space, mobile browsers often truncate web addresses. Also, if you’re clicking on a link to a site from an email you received, it’s hard to see the full email sender’s email address making it hard for you to know if it’s coming from a fake person or company.
That’s why going it alone in search isn’t a good idea. Just like it is essential to have antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing and a firewall on your PC, it is equally essential to have protection on ... more

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