Meet these 10 tips to protect your smartphone

For some reason, most people do not give enough importance to the security of your smartphone, without having in mind that it takes a lot of sensitive information. Luckily, the security of smartphones is gaining ground and these tips below can help protect:

1. Use access codes

Prevent access to your device with a passcode or patte lock is important if you have many applications installed that stores personal data such as financial applications, application notes (like Eveote) or your own address that may contain a large amount of private information.

2. Protect your iCloud account and Google

Not many people know that if someone enters your iCloud or Google account can access a lot of data on your smartphone. In these times, it is a necessary inconvenience enable 2-step verification on both accounts.

3. Avoid Jailbreak or rooteo

If you do not have much knowledge about what you're doing, but heard about it and want to be "free" of the constraints and restrictions, then you'd better avoid him.

4. Beware install applications

This is especially important on Android(Lenovo A760). Google just released 50,000 suspected of being malware applications. The Apple app store has this problem, but in a much lesser degree.

If you own an Android device, you have to be very careful about downloading applications. Check Idea, see if they have a website, you Google the name of the application, etc..

5. Use an application instead of the browser

In the case of bank or any other action involving confidential information passing through your smartphone is always safer to use the official application before the browser as these have additional security features.

6. Controls access to applications

Sure you see the message "This application wants to access their data." These data can be photos, your location, contacts, etc.. Be aware, not just click OK all the time.

Most are legitimate requests but you better be sure, some applications ask for permissions to all, even though they do not need.

7. Back up your data

It is not only a good idea if it breaks, also if it gets stolen. Apple users can install the Find My iPhone app, which will allow them to remotely lock and delete information. There are also apps like Prey, which lets you track your lost device.

8. Report your stolen phone

This will prevent anyone use your data. Take note of your ESN, IMEI or MEID are long numbers that identify your phone(THL W11) uniquely, and typically found behind the battery or on the back of the phone. Report it to the police and your carrier, this way you can block it completely so they can not use it even if you try to reset it and place another SIM card.

9. Upgrade the operating system

Keep updated both the operating system and the applications ruing. These changes may include new features, but many of them are bug fixes, performance updates and security fixes.

10. Wireless and Bluetooth

When you're not at home off the wireless and bluetooth completely, use your 3G or 4G coection if you can. If you coect to any wireless network that is not trusted, can steal information.

We hope this information will be useful and put into practice these tips, and you do not know how useful they are, until the worst happens.