Security tips to keep your smartphone protected

The International Day of Information Security is celebrated on November 30, so some advice to avoid the loss or theft of our data on smartphones is always welcome.

Given that practically all of our life is inside our phones, we must try as far as possible, to fall into the wrong hands, so that hackers or "computer thieves" do not misuse it by having access to confidential information. store or share via internet.

In Mexico alone, in 2017, cybercrime generated losses of 7,000 million dollars. It may seem that doing this is difficult but not really. Just follow some simple tips and other very logical, such as the following:

Download apps in the official store.

When applications are installed, only the official application store of each operating system should be used. For example, if you have an Android-based smartphone, such as the Alcatel 1X, which uses the Android Oreo 8.1 (Go Edition) operating system, everything must be installed from the Play Store Go, the application store that comes with the device.

Do not use obvious keys.

Sometimes you do not need computer experts to hack devices, especially if they have obvious keys such as birthdays, lucky numbers, pet names, etc. Computer thieves only need to know some of these data to access private and valuable content.

Use of biometric systems.

The current technology allows us to have a security system as unique and personal as the facial unlocking or access to the device through fingerprints. Taking into account that there are no two identical fingerprints, there is no way that another person can access through this functionality. In fact, all the line of smartphones of the Alcatel family owns it plus the Face key on the Alcatel 3X and Alcatel 5 models.

Do not provide information through emails.

Never share confidential personal information via email as many computer thieves have user databases and forge corporate emails. Mail chains with offers and promotions are usually a very common advertising method, but we must take care of the emails that request personal information to access these benefits.

Google Play Protect.

In addition to the precautions that we can take, there are functions of devices designed to increase the safety of mobile phones. The Alcatel 1 series has Google Play Protect, the native system developed by Google that daily scans and automatically Android devices of more than 2 billion users around the world so that all applications work properly and the threats of security are detected and blocked in time.

Date update on 2018-11-29. Date published on 2018-11-29. Category: hackers Author: Oscar olg Fuente: poderpda
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