Have you noticed any changes to your smart phone lately do you think that your phone is performing at a very low performance? If this is the case, it’s a sign that your phone might have been hacked. Timing is everything is an old saying, but is still very much useful in today’s world. Have you noticed delays when:
- Dialling a number
- Checking your voicemails
- Sending and receiving text messages
Paying more attention to your phone functionality is one of the ways to do damaged control in case your phone has been compromised. The fast paced world we live in now means we have more things competing for the twenty four hours that we are all entitled to but ensuring that your phone is secured from Hacker should be paramount.
The worst nightmare for, you will be to find out that somebody has an unauthorised access to the following information:
- Your videos
- Your phone contact list
- Your documents
- Your email
If the hacker is using a key logger he or she will be able to monitor every keystroke you type on your phone’s keyboard which means revealing:
- Your passwords
- Your personal information
- Your credit card information
- Your bank information
- And other sensitive documents.
One of the easiest ways for Hackers to have an unauthorised access to your phone is if you click the weird link embedded in a text message. The link comes as a disguise like a text message you normally receive from people you know such as parents, friends, or colleagues and because text messages are part of our daily activities, something we do constantly we never really take our time to check the authenticity of these text messages. So if you click on the link in a text messages your smart phone will be corrupt and access could be given to the person on the other end who might eventually take over your device.
You need to train yourself to make sure that any time you receive a text message, First things is to establish that it’s coming from a reliable source. If you get a text message from someone you don’t know and ask you to click and view a picture or to watch a funny video, you shouldn’t unless you are hundred percent sure that it’s coming from a reliable source.
One of the main things you can do to prevent easy unauthorised access to your phone is to enable the multi factor authentication feature, companies like Facebook, Google and major banks do have a multi factor authentication feature.
