Protect Your Smartphone From Hackers With These Tips

In this digital era, almost every person do their work with the help of their smartphones like shopping, banking, and many others. They save every information in their smartphones such as ID, passwords, credit card details as well as confidential data. Just imagine, what if anyone hacks your phone? It looks exactly the same as someone robbed your house. It would be a massive disaster for your personal property.

Your smartphone is small and compact in size and it is an advantage but, it is also a disadvantage because you could easily lose your phone or it can be stolen by someone. For security purposes, you need to apply some techniques and ideas to protect your smartphones from hackers and intruders. You can use the tips and ideas given below to make your phone safer.

Avoid public Wi-Fi

It is an important precaution that you all should take. When people find free Wi-Fi in public places such as airports, shopping complex, railway stations, cyber cafes, etc. They like to surf over free Wi-Fi instead of using their own personal internet connection. But sometimes it becomes very dangerous for you because it is an excellent chance for intruders and hackers as it's easier to hack your smartphones. So try to use your own personal internet connection instead of public Wi-Fi and also turn off your Bluetooth when you are in public. If you can't avoid it then you should try some other VPN apps, which helps to encrypt your connection and reduce the chances of being hacked.

Lock your smartphone

The first thing which makes your phone safe from hackers and intruders is a smartphone lock. There are many different types of locks offered in your phone such as 4-digit pin, passcode, password and pattern lock. To increase security in your phone, companies also offer new technologies such as face unlock and fingerprint sensor. Fingerprint and facial recognition are safer and faster than the other ones. If you are choosing the password option, it's recommended to make a password with mixed letters such as lower case, uppercase, numbers and some other special characters (@,#,$,&, etc.).

Update apps and operating system

Some times people ignore system and apps updates because of their own different reasons like 'eat up more space'. But these apps updates and OS updates are very important for your phone. Not every time, apps developers make changes in UI/UX, sometimes developers fix bugs and make other security improvements which makes your apps safer than before and makes it harder for hackers and intruders to break your security. So, when your smartphone notifies you about any app or system update, do it as soon as possible.

Use two-factor authentication

It is a new technology to protect your personal information. '2FA' stands for two-factor authentication which offers an extra security layer, or you can say it is an extra step in the login process. Some people don't like this feature because it gives them more tasks to do, but it is a major step to secure your personal information such as email, credit card details, and other important info. To make your phone safe, open google and other apps and enable this option in your phone.

Use 'Find my device' feature

If your phone is lost or stolen by someone, you can easily track your phone, erase data, lock it and make your phone ring to stop hackers and intruders from accessing your information. Google offers 'Find my device' feature in the smartphones which run on Android operating system and also other companies such as Samsung, Xiaomi also provides their own separate feature with many options to secure your phone and to control it from other devices.

Don't open spam, HTTP websites, and phishing emails

One common way to steal information from your phones is through emails and fake websites. These websites and phishing scams are designed to steal your personal info such as ID, passwords, credit card details, and banking details. The first thing that you need is 'don't open any spam emails and links' which are given in the emails sent via unknown users. Secondly, avoid opening HTTP websites. Hackers also send the links of HTTP websites on WhatsApp groups and people open them, resulting in losing their pieces of information. Google Chrome browser also warns you before opening any HTTP website.

Don't download apps from other than official stores

Hackers and intruders can easily invade in your phone through apps. Hackers make free versions of paid apps and try to steal information from the phone. Sometimes people prefer free versions over paid apps, but they are not available on official stores, so they search on other sources and download apk files. But it can be very harmful to your phone and also for personal information. So, only download apps from play store or apple store where apps are malware-free and safe for your phone.

Install Antivirus apps

Antivirus apps are a common tool for your smartphone. Antivirus apps offer many features to fight with viruses, malware, phishing, and other privacy attacks. These apps will scan your data and search for unnecessary files, viruses, as well as privacy attacks and remove them from the system. Avast, Quick Heal, Kaspersky, these are the popular antivirus apps, and nowadays almost every company offers its specific security app in their UI and OS. Thus, scan your device time to time and updates these apps when it notifies you to make your phone safe.