How To Prevent Your Smartphone From Being Hacked

Smartphones are one of the most common things to own in this era, it has become part of our daily life.It contains almost every personal information of a person and keeping it safe and secure in every way possible from hackers should be our top priority.Here are some of the ways to prevent your smartphone from being hacked.

Avoid Public WiFi

Who doesn't like free wifi ?. Everyone is happy to use free public wifi and the happiest among all the people are hackers.Many people using public wifi get targeted by hackers, having the right skills & tools a hacker can easily view your online activity, possibly your login information of social media and even financial data.If its really important for you to connect to a wifi then use VPN apps which would encrypt your activity.

Keep Operating System Software Updated

This is probably the most easiest and simplest way to protect your phone against hackers.Keeping your smartphone running the latest software does not only keep you updated with latest features, but also they are designed to close loopholes which hackers have found ways to exploit.

Be careful of what you install

When you install an app on your smartphone, it asks for permissions for accessing your location,photos,camera,microphone etc which is required for most of the apps because of their functionality.But it is also a huge risk if you are giving those permission to uncommon apps because they might be hackers and many people fall for it.

Lock Your Phone

Now there are many ways to lock your phone like patterns,pass code,fingerprint etc.Hackers have found ways to by pass it but it is still recommended to have it so that a thief cannot get access to all the information on your phone.Apple & Google also provide "find my device" services which allows you to locate your device on map and remotely lock or erase information on it.

Log Out From Online Services

After using any online services you must log out.Auto login is a great feature because it saves your time and lets be honest, we all are lazy to re type the password again but it has a huge disadvantage.If a thief opens your browser, you can lose all your online account information.