How to increase the security of your phone

Step by step the world is going to fully digitize. Smartphones are now an integral part of our personal and business lives. In Bulgaria, nearly 69.9% of the holders of "smart" phones daily spend an average of 5 hours web - searching for information, chat, read articles, shop, update your status on social networks. Surfing the web has become a routine for children and adults. Among all the amenities that bring us phones with endless variety of new and interesting applications, we forget one very important point - the security of the data that we hold in them. Likelihood our desktop computer or laptop to be stolen is less (not impossible, of course) while phones are popular and easy target for thieves. Besides being expensive, they store personal information and this sometimes makes them more valuable than laptops.

Suggest some practical tips that can protect your device from physical and virtual encroachment.

Do not leave it away from you

Hold the phone in itself all the time. Do not leave it on the tables in cafes, bars, much less discos or nightclubs. Give it to strangers, unless they want to look at it and this happens before your eyes. Smartphones are small but very valuable machinery. If you identified the thief, he will most likely watching you for a while, before proceeding to the theft.

 Lock the phone

Each phone can be locked with a password. Thus protect the data stored on your phone as thieves and hackers. Options on any operating system offers opportunities for personal setting. Use the security codes on the highest level. Choose your passwords carefully and let it be long and contain letters and numbers. A password is considered reliable if it contains at least 8 characters that are a combination of letters and numbers.

Download applications only from trusted sources

Most reliable stores are attached to the respective mobile platforms. Another option is to download from the official website of the company, which has copyright over the application, subject to your interests. You can visit websites, enjoying a high reputation and reliability. Avoid downloading programs from addresses you do not recognize or reject files that are available to you for free and out of nowhere, chances are viruses. If your phone offers a feature to turn the automatic download and updating of applications from unknown sources, enable it. Android OS and iOS certainly have built such a security feature, just bother to search for it somewhere in the settings.

Back up your phone

Do it often. It should not bother you, even if you go through your mind that you're paranoid. Periodically, you can store data using a cloud service that your mobile operator or operating system should offer. If not, you can download apps like Google Drive, iCloud and DropBox in them to store personal information. Remember to refresh archive.

Get out of the registrations

Probably enter through your smartphone in a variety of sites and Internet applications to give access require a subscription, such as Gmail, DropBox, PayPal, YouTube, Skype, and social networks Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and etc. Smartphones allow for access to the state of your bank cards. The use of such facilities is a great convenience, but long standing mode logged in makes you risk someone getting into your phone and use personal information for fraudulent purposes. So try to go out of their registration as soon as you finish your work with that application.

Take apteytite for applications and the operating system

Computer code rarely works perfectly. Programs always make mistakes at some stage of their placing. So developers come back and change the lines as needed. After every adjustment comes a new update. Update software as annoying if it seems at times. New versions of applications and operating systems that appear in the form of updates, have introduced more powerful defenses and were cleared of bugs (software bugs).

Bear in mind when using public Wi-Fi

Internet, you have at home and at work, is protected. Public Wi-Fi is not hackers can more easily penetrate into your phone to steal it contains information and use it for purposes that will not be in your favor. The most common subject of interest is data related to your credit or debit card registrations systems for mobile payment and any other places on the internet, which store their cash holdings.

Use encryption applications

Selective attention to applications for personal correspondence. It is recommended that they are not directly related to the software product to Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple or Google. Silent Circle is the work of Phil Zimmermann, who created the email encryption (encoding) program PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Silent Circle consists of several applications and allows you to send encrypted messages, emails and conference calls, without fear that they will become accessible bystanders. The program also has a function to delete the messages immediately after they are read. KeePass is a software with which you can store your passwords. If your smartphone is under the control of the operating system Android, one of the best coding applications are Encrypt It and Droid Crypt. Users of Android 4.0 have built-in encryption Encrypt your phone. iOS 3.0, as well as newer versions have built-in encryption software to the hardware of the phone. This, however, does not provide 100% protection of the data. Use the Data protection, which is available for iOS 4.0 and newer versions. It allows you to encrypt emails, attachments and the information in them that drop down from the other applications and the Internet. In the near future is expected to be released new mobile applications developed by Peter Sunde, who is better known as the founder of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay. This annex is named Hemlis (translated from Swedish means "secret"). With it you can send and receive messages that will not be available for monitoring by third parties.