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How to Secure Android Smartphone from Hackers
Hacking has become a serious threat in today’s world which is turning out to be a huge complex problem and growing like a plant of bad day – by - day. The most devastating part of hacking is stealing the user’s personal and confidential information, which is something like grabbing the one’s personals without their permission. the multinational companies like Google or Apple have taken many safety measures to protect their users, beyond all their efforts, hackers are inventing some ultra modern technical methods for their job to be done, this is something un humanistic. In this article we are going to learn about how Android, Smartphone will be hacked? And what’s it’s scenario, we just learn it step –by -step.
How a .apk file will be hacked?, How to protect it?
Applications that we download for our Android smartphones, a ‘.apk‘ file exists. This file of application can be decoded or decomposed into a original form where we get to access the main source code of the application. How does this decoding help the hackers? How will they harm our smartphone using this?, that’s what we are going to learn here.
Step-1: When the hackers get the actual source code of an application, a duplicate copy of it can be made with some malicious code placed in between somewhere in the code and which will just look like a great app and makes the users to go on it and download, install it in their smart phones, from here the hackers get total control on the users Android, Smartphone and just performs their psychotic activities using that smartphone.
Step-2: For example, let us take a Android BBM (Black Berry Messenger) which is a fake app had more than 1000+ downloads before it was found fake and being shut down by Google officially. Just once thinking of those 1000 people who had being cheated brutally, makes everyone emotional this is just a example, hackers also perform managing the memory values in mobile games to cheat the users for their psychotic fun and entertainment and also can change the payment verification information to steal the items from applications.
So friends before downloading an application it must be checked thoroughly by looking at the publisher’s name and have a cross check about the name given is originally valid or not. Also, it is gutly advised to check the ratings and comments sections for opinions from the other users. Finally, keep your android smartphone secure and have a great surfing experience.