The Australian Prime Minister and the NSA recommend turning your smartphone off and on regularly. There’s even talk of turning it off for 5 minutes each day before turning it back on. And all this in order not to be hacked.
Want to reduce the chances of your smartphone being hacked by hackers? A tip: turn it off for at least five minutes once a day. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the press. The remarks were relayed by media outlet The Guardian, which provided some additional details.
Simple things: Turn off your phone for five minutes every night. For people seeing this: Do it every 24 hours while brushing your teeth or whatever you’re doing.
What’s the point of rebooting?
This statement follows the announcement of the establishment of a national cybersecurity coordinator in Australia. And if you can think that this phrase came from a Boomer, it really isn’t, and Security experts agree the Australian Prime Minister.
Source: Frandroid – Chloé Pertuis
Therefore, Priyadarsi Nanda, a cybersecurity expert, states that restarting your cell phone once a day drastically reduces the risk of being hacked by a hacker.
In practice, restarting the smartphone is sufficient Close all applications, but especially all processes runs in the background. And quite often it is one of these processes that hackers use to break into a smartphone, be it Android or iOS.
A practice recommended by the NSA
The NSA (National Security Agency in the United States) also recommends turning off the smartphone regularly to reduce the risk of a cyber attack, according to the media. The NSA states that this is appropriate Restart your phone at least twice a week. This is to reduce the chance of two different attacks.
First, spear phishing, which requires installation of a malicious application. And then zero-click exploits that don’t require user interaction to activate.
The limits of rebooting
But be careful because A reboot is not the holy grail of cybersecurity defense. Many attacks cannot be countered by turning the smartphone off and on again.
One can also ask whether this measure is of interest to ordinary people. However, if you have a sensitive job, reading the NSA’s best practices guide might help you.
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