Security updates for Android devices are a bit hit and miss, and that’s putting it diplomatically. One of the main reasons why the Android operating is so exposed to hackers is because device manufacturers do not deliver patches regularly to their customers.

You may have heard of the Cathay Pacific airline breach in which near staggering 10 million customers had personal data stolen. Passport details and credit card numbers were among the data that was stolen. Approximately 860,000 passport numbers and 245,000 Hong Kong identity cards were accessed.

Black Friday is firmly entrenched in the minds of many people following televised scenes and newspaper reports of people trampling over each other, general hysteria and hyped up shoppers trading blows in their bid to grab the best bargains.

So many large scale hacks involve the loss of email addresses and passwords. This sort of information is like gold dust for fraudsters who can use it to do all sorts of things to defraud victims.