If you intend to carry a smartphone when on vacation and use them as travel guides, perform a variety of ordering or conducting Internet transactions, make sure that you have the security needed to do it all. Kaspersky Lab shows how to properly protect your smartphone.
Smartphone saves time in preparing for the holiday because we can provide easy access to a variety of things whenever we need it. Example, if you are having trouble saaat will check in, you can easily open the room booking confirmation emails that are still stored in the email inbox on your smartphone. Previously, if you do not have proof of your booking will surely confused and tried at length to explain to the hotel manager.
Smartphone as a travel guide
Smartphones really showed his strength as a faithful companion, especially when the holiday period. Smartphone lets you stay in touch with family at home and be the primary communication tool when you are in a vacation spot. Many travelers avoid the high cost of telephone and internet using hotspot services.
Through the Internet, they can search for hotels and restaurants or book trips in a short time. But beware because accessing the Internet using hotspots are not secure manner at this time. Without a VPN connection, you should never send sensitive information via the hotspot. This not only applies to credit card information or account information, but it is also a password when accessing e-mail or Facebook.
How to trade safely
If you have to do the transaction while on vacation, such as online banking, the hotel booking confirmation or pay the rent a car, do not ever do it through unencrypted WLAN. At unencrypted WLAN everyone can know the information you send. Even if you have access berpassword with a group of other users, such as WLAN hotel, the situation is the same as the other hotel residents can also find out your information. If you do not have a VPN client or if the VPN client does not work then you have three options:
- Ask the Internet via a wired connection. Many hotels offer this and, at least for a notebook, is still acceptable.
- Use WLAN with individual access. Because individual WLAN more expensive, it is usually only available in a small number of WLAN hotel.
- Use of mobile communications connection, because it is much more difficult to be intercepted over the WLAN.
You also need to install a security application, such as Kaspersky Internet Security for Android, on your smartphone. This application protects your smartphone from malicious applications and web attacks take advantage of real-time scanner and block access to contacts, photos and files to help prevent thieves get your personal data. Even if your smartphone is stolen, you can activate the function remove (delete) that destroy all sensitive data.
Kaspersky Internet Security for Android works even better than that: if your smartphone has an integrated GPS module, your smartphone will send the message contains the current location that lets you find the smartphone using, for example, Google Earth. In addition, if the SIM is replaced, SIM-Watch function will immediately send a new message contains a phone number used.
Locking your smartphone
If you combine the protection of Kaspersky Internet Security for the Android smartphone operating system security functions, you completely up-to-date about the safety of your smartphone. Make sure you enable the PIN request function that appears on your phone when the screen is locked. Of course, a password or pattern to unlock phones provide better security.
Passport smartphone for emergencies
To be truly safe you should take precautions in case of emergency to make passport smartphone. While it might sound silly, but in a pinch, it can save you a lot of time and give you ease. Record all your important data including smartphone provider hotline number, your customer number, phone number, 15-digit IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier), which is the serial number of your phone, and your SIM card number. This data allows you to block a lost smartphone quickly, ask for a new SIM card and just in a matter of days you can continue to enjoy the holidays with a new smartphone.
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