Hackers are looking to steal the financial & personal information of normal ordinary people. Your phone stores more than just your email account on the phone, for instance, is a gateway to resetting banking & other sensitive passwords.
Biometrics, such as fingerprint scanners, can act as a shortcut and make complex passcodes less of a pain. Below there is method given through which you can be safe attacked by hackers and other family or friends members.
Lock your phone with a passcode
A 4 digit passcode & lead self destruct feature that might wipe a phone's data after too many wrong guesses. Using 6 digits makes a passcode 100 times harder to guess and if you want to make it even harder, you can add letters & other characters to further increase the number of possible combinations.
In an iphone's self destruct feature is something you must turn on in the settings, under Touch ID & Passcode and the phone wipes itself clean after 10 failed attempts. But the 10 attempts apply to your guesses, too, if you forget your passcode, or if your kids start randomly punching in numbers. Both systems will also introduce waiting periods after several wrong guesses to make it tough to try all combos.
Using encryption method
Iphones running at least ios 8 offer full disk encryption by default. That means that the information stored on the phone cannot be extracted by authorities or by hackers & read on another computer. If the phone is not unlocked first, any information obtained would be distroyed & unreadable technically.
In Android you typically have to turn on in the settings. Google's policy requires many phones with the latest version of Android, including its own Nexus phones, to offer encryption by default. But, according to Google, only 2.3% of active Android devices are currently running that version.
Back up your phone
If you have to remotely wipe the phone's data, it's comforting to know that you won't lose all your photos and other important data.
Keep your software up to date
Software updates often contain many fixes to known flaws that might give hackers a way into your device. It is more complicated with Android because updates need to go through various phone manufacturers & wireless carriers first.
Set up device finders option
The app comes with iphones, but you need to set it up before you lose your phone. Look for the Find iphone app in the Extras folder. Activation Lock makes it harder for thieves to sell your device. The phone becomes unusable and it cannot be reactivated without knowing its Apple ID. If all else fails, you can remotely wipe the phone's data. While your information will be lost, at least it won't end up in the hands of a criminal person.
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