A glimpse at the #boardingpass tag on Instagram shows a lot of people sharing their airline passes, but they are potentially leaving themselves wide open to all manner of personal data theft, as displayed on-stage by researcher Karsten Nohl.

Because of the FUD-creating information spread around by security companies such as McAfee, Android is thought of as a virus-prone mobile operating system which, like Windows, needs an antivirus. If you read my editorial on Android Security from 3 months ago, you’ll know that I believe that Android devices do not need any sort of anti-malware app provided that you follow a handful of common sense tips.