Android Phone Security

The do and do-nots to ensure the online and offline security of your beloved android devices

We now live in a world where not owning a smart phone is considered rural and ancient. Smart phones have taken the world by storm. And the harbinger of this revolution is the popular and almost undisputed Operating System, Android. It’s open source and that is one of its biggest strengths. But we live in the times of Mr. Robot and NSA. To cut things short, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that anything and everything is accessible if the right tools are used. So in such a world, one must know how to protect themselves from the likes of hackers and those with malicious intent. One should not underestimate the impact and magnitude of such attacks. For instance there was this case when a group of German Hackers hacked a country’s voting machines to tamper the election results. This is a where the world of hacking gets ugly and must be acknowledged as a real and constant threat.

But we got you covered. We shall tell you about simple ways in which you can protect yourself from such attacks and the measures to be taken are surprisingly simple. Let us begin.

Types of attacks

Basically you could be subjected to intrusive danger in two ways, either physically ‘hacked’ in which a menacing agent might snoop into your privacy by breaking into your phone. E.g. knowing your password. Take for example a webpage opens up which is attached to some unknown application on your phone which downloads tonnes of malware that you never even asked for.

Tips and tricks

Passwords