Phone hacking – How to protect yourself

Shadow King

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Jun 11, 2012
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What phone hackers hope to achieve from hacking your phone!

Financial gain : Money transfer by phone is becomming popular. This means that money can be taken from your account and transferred into another by sms. A Phone hacking guru can get spy and get information required to initiate transactions from your phone.
Spy on you: A hacker can also gain access and take over for cell phone spying and remote mobile phone hacking. Literally, once secured, the hacker can have the phone call him, and then be able to listen to all conversations going on around the owner of the phone.
Access your private information: And as we have been reading, phone hackers what to keep ahead of other in gossip!

Common ways phone hackers use to hack phones!

The commonly used phone hacking methods are use of spyware and account takeovers.

Phone hackers could secretly install on a victim’s computer spyware that gives them access to not only the contents of the hard drive, but also the victim’s private information such as passwords. Malware is fairly simple to install and can be sent to the victim without her or his knowledge via an e-mail, or user is tricked into downloading them. These spyware programs are generally designed to go around internet security applications.

Usually, an account takeover can be an especially troublesome problem. A phone hacking crook can send impersonating mails to obtain more information from your close friends and family or even trick your contacts to send you money.
What Can You Do to Prevent Phone Hacking?

1. Prevent phone hacking through hard to guess Passwords

2. Switch off your phone

3. Keep your phone updated

4. Keep your Phone safe

5. KTurn off bluetooth service when not using it

6. Turn off voice mail service running on your provider

Some providers allow access to your voice mail without requiring a password provided that the calling number (Caller ID) is actually yours. This is usually to make their service easier to use for the intended persons. A hacker can spoof your number and call the voice mail number on your provider and operate your voice mail as though it was his own without the need to even know your password! Call your provider and either ask them to require authentication regardless of the caller ID.

Conclusion!

As they say, all systems can be broken into, given time. The best that we do is to make it difficult for potential hackers to get to your protected zone.
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Jack

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Staff Member
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Jan 24, 2011
9,377
Is it just me or this is a very poorly written article??
What Phone hacking even means? Are we talking about how to protect your smart phone from malware and other type of attacks?

As far as the tips go :

Switch off your phone << What if somebody calls me.. and it's not a hacker?
Keep your Phone safe << What does that even mean??
KTurn off bluetooth service when not using it << Hello... 2012 here! We have Internet on our phones!
Turn off voice mail service running on your provider << Yes , that's what you should be worried about!
 

bogdan

Level 1
Jan 7, 2011
1,362
Prevent phone hacking advice number 2 is priceless: "Switch off your phone".

My own #7 advice to prevent phone hacking: use this!
 

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