With the terrible technological progress, and the abundance of capabilities that smart phones enjoy, as they enable the person to finish all his daily tasks, the phone has become the box that contains inside it all the information and personal data of the user, and his important secrets, such as bank account numbers, and the like, which increased the greed. Cybercriminals and technology hackers “hackers” push them to try to devise new tricks that enable them to hack smartphones and access users’ personal data.
Create different tricks to hack smart phones
Among the tricks devised by technology hackers to penetrate smartphones is the issuance of programs andMalicious applications and promoting it, and encouraging users to install it on their smartphones; Most of these applications require certain permissions such as the email name or password, or opening the camera or microphone, which enables these hackers to access personal data, and many of these applications are nothing but spyware, through which all data can be viewed. The profile of the user, following all his activities on the phone.
Technology hackers try to access this personal data of users to use it for personal purposes that serve them, or to blackmail its owners and get a lot of money from them. Therefore, it represents a great danger to smartphone owners, especially those who install many programs on their phones.
How to detect spyware on a smartphone
Engineer Tamer Muhammad, a technology expert, told Al-Watan that the existence of Spying programs On the smartphone by reviewing all the applications on the phone, and if a strange program is noticed that the person did not install, it is likely that it is a spyware program and the phone has been hacked.
Muhammad added that one of the most popular spyware and hacking programs for smartphones is those programs and applications that provide the service of changing facial features, or showing a person’s image after 50 years, and everything that provides services similar to that, pointing out that if the phone is confirmed to have been hacked, , or suspecting the existence of spyware, the person must do a factory reset of the phone, in addition to the use of some well-known and guaranteed anti-virus and anti-spyware programs: “In anti-spyware programs, they themselves are malicious programs that spy on personal data.”
Tips to protect smart phones from hacking
The tech expert gave several tips to protect smart phones from penetration, and the preservation of personal data, namely:
Not installing all programs that provide services such as changing images and the like.
Do not access any links from unknown sources.
Do not install any programs other than the well-known programs that the person will need on the phone.
Update the phone’s operating system from time to time.
– Not agreeing to any permissions required by different apps.