Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM tells residents
www.theguardian.com
Experts back Anthony Albanese’s cybersecurity advice, saying forcibly closing apps could stop criminals from monitoring users or collecting data

Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn’t permanently installed on a phone.

  • cark@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    That is not true. Many attacks (e.g. the recently revealed Operation Triangulation) do not have persistence.

    • aranym@lemmy.nameEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yup, a lot of very sophisticated mobile malware does not have persistence. His advice holds up.