تدابير مهمة لحماية هاتفك الذكي أثناء العطلات الصيفية

One may be exposed to the loss or stolen of his smartphone during the summer holidays.The risk of such incidents increases due to the possibility of private images and communication groups - in addition to data access to bank accounts online or electronic stores - in the wrong hands that misuse these data.

The German Eco Economy Association (ECO) advises to follow the following important measures to protect the smartphone during holidays:

- The screen lock should be prepared, which works in a similar way to lock the "SIM" when running the smartphone;Where the user is required to enter the PIN personal code, and instead of using the digital code, you can rely on the fingerprint scanner or face recognition function.

- Operating system updates should be installed regularly, and the importance of updates is not only to add new jobs, but they also provide the user important safety updates as well, in addition to activating the automatic update function in the application store when connecting to the Wi -Fi network (WLAN) only.Large data volumes do not consume the data package.

- The importance of backups appears when the smartphone is exposed to loss or theft, and therefore the backups of photos, videos, contacts and other data should be performed on cloud computing services such as "iCloud" or Google Drive (Google Drive).

- It is also important to encrypt the data so that it does not fall into the wrong hands in the event of a smartphone loss or steal it, and modern operating systems automatically encrypts user data to protect emails, communication, photos, download files and access data to various internet services, and the user can encrypt data with phonesOld smart manually by settings, and the data stored on the SD memory card must be verified.

- The download of applications should be limited to official stores, to avoid installing harmful applications or that include malware or spying..It is also best to abandon the use of sensitive applications such as banking services applications when connecting to open Wi -Fi networks.