Recommended Security Apps for Your Smartphone and Tablets

Not only computers, nowadays, smartphones or tablets are also prone to hackers. Normally, hackers will steal information such as account details, passwords, important texts, intimate photos etc. Fortunately, smartphones are a little bit harder to crack than average computer. Therefore, normally, hackers will do hidden Wi-Fi attacks or simply walk off with your gadgets. In this entry, we are going to show you how to prevent this.

1. Keep viruses and malware off of your phone.

There are a few ways that viruses and malwares can be downloaded into your smartphones or tablets. Hackers can either use your contacts to send you malicious links or they also can use websites to trick you into downloading vulnerable apps. To prevent this, there are two apps which can be downloaded as a protection. Lookout and avast!

Lookout can help to track your smartphone if it is stolen or accidentally left behind in a specific location for example: cafe. Avast! will help to scan, remove and protect your phones from potential threats.

2. Protect against Wi-Fi attacks.

If you are using public Wi-Fi, you are prone to hackers who are able to snoops your data. There are two apps which can be downloaded to prevent this. avast!SecureLine VPN will help to encrypt you data when you transfer using public Wi-Fi. Alternatively, you can also use HotSpot Shield VPN. It is a popular apps from the apps store since it routes your Web traffic through a secure network that hackers cannot penetrate.

3. Always have a last resort.

When you lost your smartphone and tablets, it is useful if you download these two apps, “Find My iPhone” and “Android Device Manager”. “Find My iPhone” will help you locate your iPhone or iPad using built-in GPS whereas “Android Device Manager” will let you track all your Android devices.

Recommended Security Apps for Your Smartphone and Tablets

How To Remove The WireLurker Malware From Your iPhone And iPad

WireLurker is a malware program that has been reported to infect Macs running OS X and Jailbroken iOS devices. It has emerged as a threat to Chinese users for now, but if you think that your OS X Mac or Jailbroken iOS device has been infected by this malware then read this guide on how to remove it before it creates problems for you.

If your iDevice has been jailbroken and you believe that its been affected by this malware then follow these steps. Although be warned that these steps might be too complicated for some users. In that case you can easily restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch device from iTunes. It will be reset to the latest available iOS release.

Steps For Jailbreak Users

1. You should have iFile from Cydia installed on your device or you should be able to SSH into your iOS device and access system directories.


2. Go to /Library > /MobileSubstrate > /DynamicLibraries.


3. Look for a file named sfbase.dylib
   


4. If you are able to find this file, then your device has been infected. If not then you are safe and you don’t need to do anything.


5. If you found sfbase.dylib then restore your device using iTunes.

Steps For Normal Users

There is no proof which suggests that your device will be infected by WireLurker yet. We can safely assume that Apple will take appropriate security measures to make sure that your device is safe.

Please let us know if your iDevice was infected by this malware in the comments below.

How To Remove The WireLurker Malware From Your iPhone And iPad