94 percent of IT professionals expect increase in mobile security attacks

[The Number Of The Day] Ninety-four percent (94%) of IT professionals expect mobile security attacks to become more frequent, while 79 percent report increased difficulty securing devices.[1]( That’s one of the 12 surprising mobile technology statistics published by Mobile Business Insights.[2]( The report also notes that “for every eight minutes users spend on smartphones, seven of those minutes are spent in apps.”[3]( And users spend an average of about five hours per day on their device.[4]( The generational impact of this change is highlighted by the fact that most 16- to 24-year-old smartphone users now spend as much time on their mobile device as on all other devices combined.[5]( Advertising money is following the trend in a big way. Mobile video ad spending is the fastest-growing ad format, up 142 percent in the second quarter of 2017.[3]( Read the full list [here](. 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