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6 METHO0DS TO PROTECT YOUR PHONE FROM BEING HACKED.

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I put for you few methods you can use to protect your phone form being hacked to put your personal and work life safe. 

1. Add extra protection with your face, finger, pattern, or PIN. 

  1. First up, the basics. Locking your phone with facial ID, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a pin is your most basic form of protection, particularly in the event of loss or theft. (Your options will vary depending on the device, operating system, and manufacturer.) Take it a step further for even more protection. Secure the accounts on your phone with strong passwords and use two-factor authentication on the apps that offer it, which doubles your line of defense.    

  2. Stick to the official app stores for your apps.

    Both Google Play and Apple’s App Store have measures in place to help prevent potentially dangerous apps from making it into their stores. Malicious apps are often found outside of the app stores, which can run in the background and compromise your personal data like passwords, credit card numbers, and more—practically everything that you keep on your phone. Further, when you are in the app stores, look closely at the descriptions and reviews for apps before you download them. Malicious apps and counterfeits can still find their way into stores, and here are a few ways you can keep those bad apps from getting onto your phone.    

  3. Use a VPN. 

    Or, put another way, don’t hop onto public Wi-Fi networks without protection. A VPN masks your connection from hackers allowing you to connect privately when you are on unsecure public networks at airports, cafes, hotels, and the like. With a VPN connection, you’ll know that your sensitive data, documents, and activities are protected from snooping, which is definitely a great feeling given the amount of personal and professional business we manage with our smartphones. 

  4.  Learn how to lock or wipe your phone remotely in case of emergency. 

    Worst case scenario—your phone is gone. Really gone. Either it’s hopelessly lost or got stolen. What now? Lock it remotely or even wipe its data entirely. While that last bit about wiping the phone seems like a drastic move, if you maintain regular backups as mentioned above, your data is secure in the cloud—ready for you to restore. In all, this means that hackers won’t be able to access you, or your company’s, sensitive information—which can keep you out of trouble and your professional business safe. Apple provides iOS users with a step-by-step guide for remotely wiping devices, and Google offers a guide for Android users as well. 

  5. Back up the data on your phone. 

    Backing up your phone is always a good idea for two reasons: 

    • First, it makes the process of transitioning to a new phone easy by transferring that backed-up data from your old phone to your new phone. 
    • Second, it ensures that your data stays with you if your phone is lost or stolen—allowing you to remotely wipe the data on your lost or stolen phone while still having a secure copy of that data stored in the cloud.  

    Both iPhones and Android phones have straightforward ways of backing up your phone regularly. 

  6.  Get rid of old apps—and update the ones you keep. 

    We all download apps, use them once, and then forget they are on our phones. Take a few moments to swipe through your screen and see which ones you’re truly done with and delete them along with their data. Some apps have an account associated with them that may store data off your phone as well. Take the extra step and delete those accounts so any off-phone data is deleted.  

    The reason for this is that every extra app is another app that needs updating or that may have a security issue associated with it. In a time of data breaches and vulnerabilities, deleting old apps is a smart move. As for the ones you keep, update them regularly and turn on auto-updates if that’s an option. Updates not only introduce new features to apps, but they also often address security issues. 


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