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Nowadays, with smartphones becoming widespread, most people own one of these phones and run dozens of programs on them every day. If your mobile phone has the Android, iOS, Symbian, or Windows Mobile operating system, then you too own a smartphone.
Your mobile phone may unintentionally be subjected to hacking attacks, and you may lose your personal information. In this article, we have tried to help users prevent their mobile phones from being hacked by observing certain security matters.
So read the following points carefully:

1- Whenever you want to enter your email service or banking website, enter the address with the HTTPS prefix (for example, https://gmail.com). In this way, you will connect to the desired website securely, and the possibility of information theft will be greatly reduced. Almost all banking websites and email services support the secure SSL protocol.

2- If you receive an unknown email (and especially an email containing a link), do not click on the links in the email. This is because hackers can take control of your mobile phone or tablet by sending a link containing malicious code. Of course, emails you receive from reputable websites are always safe. (Especially websites on which you have registered yourself.)

3- If you need a game or an application, try to obtain it from reputable sources. This is because some of these apps and games may be infected with malicious code that causes security problems for your mobile phone. Despite some app stores not supporting users in Iran, there are also reputable Persian-language websites for downloading mobile software.

4- If you are interested in taking photographs with your mobile phone and do not want your location information and some other personal information to be published through the photograph, simply disable the options relating to GPS Camera and Geo Tag.
New mobile phones have the ability to receive your location information via GPS when you take a photograph with your mobile phone and attach it to the image. It should be noted that this information becomes apparent when you publish the photograph taken with your mobile phone on social networks.
But if you have already taken pictures and have not yet shared them on any network, simply use Microsoft Photo Tools software to remove all your personal details from the photograph taken and then share it.

5- Keep your mobile phone's Bluetooth and WiFi turned off in crowded places (of course, if you do not need them).

6- Regular updates are always released for the Android, Windows Phone, and iOS operating systems. Some hackers take advantage of this and publish their infected files on the Internet as mobile phone updates. Be careful about this and always update the operating system through the phone's own Update Manager program.

7- One of the most important points you must observe is never to access your bank accounts through unknown software. Instead, use the banking software specific to your own bank.

The points mentioned in this article were very simple. But it is interesting to know that more than 90 percent of mobile phone users do not pay attention to these points. And this causes problems such as personal information being hacked.

Sent by: Engineer Fathollahi