Your Identity is Unsafe in the Hands of Smart-devices!

Bangalore: Presently there are more tablets and smartphones in the world than PCs, which means there will be more viruses designed to attack these smart devices. This emerging smart-devices market is attracting viruses and hackers who are gritty to find a flaw and steal the data.

Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone are the three major operating system running in the present smartphone market. iOS and Android rules the tablet market also, the awaited Window 8 is yet to come into this field.

Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone are closed operating system where the attackers have to put a lot of efforts to break through it. This makes having an iOS or Windows Phone device is safer. Even though the openness of Android is one of the most loved feature, but the same makes it more vulnerable to attacks. Anyone is free to use the open source codes of Android and that makes this operating system a free playground to try all sorts of good and bad stuffs.

When you store all your personal and professional information in your smartphone or tablet please be aware of the fact that your identity and information can be stolen by a cranky hacker who just found out a loop-hole in your device’s operation system. The use of these devices for emailing, shopping and internet banking adds-up the risks of virus attacks.

Precautionary measures like enabling password to lock your device, avoiding passwords in apps, checking the links sent through text or over the internet sources and using trusted applications to allow remote wiping of your device can help your data to be safe in your smart-devices.