Despite the best efforts of both Apple and Google, hackers keep coming up with clever new ways to hack into our smartphones. From malicious apps to banking trojans and spyware, there are all sorts of different tools, techniques and tactics in a hacker’s arsenal.
Staying safe from phishing attacks and impersonation scams requires that you remain vigilant online — especially when checking your inbox or your messages — while bad apps can be avoided by checking their ratings and reviews to ensure they actually do what they should. Likewise, if you’re using an Android phone, you want to avoid sideloading apps as the APK files used to install them could contain malware. This is because they don’t go through the same rigorous security checks that ones from official app stores do.
