How to Secure Your Phone From Hackers

How to Secure Your Phone  From Hackers

If you want to be active, you can take a number of steps to protect yourself from phone hacking, most of which involve common sense.Additionally, there are advanced methods to ensure that your phone is as secure as possible (without losing its full functionality).

Basic Phone Security Tips


For casual phone users, following the basics is a great place to start when blocking simple hacking attempts :
  
  •  Do not leave your phone unattended.  The  first and best rule of thumb is to keep your phone with you at all times while in a public place.                                                         
  •  Change your phone's default passcode. Your phone may have a simple and unpredictable default password, and anyone who knows it can use it to their advantage. Change your code to a more complex one, as opposed to the commonly used codes "1234", "0000" and "2580".            
  •  Manage your Bluetooth security.  Avoid using unprotected Bluetooth networks and turn off your Bluetooth service when you aren’t using it.                     
  • Protect your PIN and Credit card data.  Use a protected app to Store PIN numbers and Credit cards, or better yet,  don't store them in your phone at all.

Advanced Ways to Prevent Phone Hacking 


You are still worried about hacking and you can take further steps to protect yourself. However, taking such things too far will defeat the purpose of being a smartphone. The following are the such steps:

  • Avoid the use of Unsecured Public WiFi:  Hackers often target important locations, such as bank accounts over Public WiFi,  which are either insecure or nonexistent due to security standards. 
  • Turn off your autocomplete feature: By doing this, you can prevent access to stored critical personal data. 
  • Regularly delete your Browsing history, Cookies and cache: Regularly deleting your personal browsing history, Cookies and caches are prevent hacking and misusing datas.
  • Do you have an iphone? Enable find my iphone: By turning the feature on in your settings, you will be able to locate your phone if you misplace it before the hackers can lay their paws on it.
  • Use a security app that increases protection: Use of security app helps to identify any malware is injected in your mobile phones and also provides antivirus protection. 

Hacking is an unauthorised entry into a network  or a computer or mobile phone to steal or manipulate information, data or files.The person involved in this process is named as hacker.

Important : The important thing is prevent mobile hacking is do not install apps in outside source and unknown sources. Other thing is do not open email links send by unknown persons.