Mobile World Cat

The smartphones of Blackberry is utilised by many people around the world, say, about four million or more are using it for exchanging contacts, emails, browse over the net and many more. Along with the type of belligerent moved towards the cell phones, mobility or instead the smart-phones have turned to be the future's keyword. Thus making sure that fine security measures are taken into account for keeping the data secured from the snooping eyes of the crackers, scammers, hackers, spammers and all other people who are of such class is significant.

In this article, we shall discuss about five tips which could help one to safeguard their blackberry and stop himself or herself from disaster like data theft.

Allows password protect over the Blackberry -

Many of the users of Blackberry that I have come across, don't contain the password protection in the Blackberry, just because thy feel too lazy to type the password every time they use the phone. However, I would suggest that as the part of improving the Blackberry smartphones' security, one should have the password protection in their Blackberry.

On the Blackberry smartphone, go to menu through the options then select general setting and final open security options. This is where one has to set their 'password' to 'enabled'. Utilising such menu, one could also set that how many times the password attempts can be made, security timeout and so on. I normally have set my password attempt to 10 as well as security timeout to twenty minutes.

Here one could also set if they want to lock their mobile phone up on holstering then set this as yes.

Secure the password with 'password keeper utility'

It is considered to be one of the most important tip that is never ever try to save up user ID's as well as passwords in the net browser of blackberry. If one wants to save their user ID and the passwords then make use of the 'password keeper utility' given along. When one is wondering regarding its advantage, then its quite simple or uncomplicated, that is if anyone ever finds this device, he or she will not at least get their data. Nevertheless, we are actually discussing data in this paragraph.

Shut down the Bluetooth when it is not used -

Bluetooth attacks are actually become every common these days. We all have heard about the Bluetooth hacking, Bluetooth virus, etc. well, it is significant to know that by default the Bluetooth gets on in the blackberry phone. Then from the main screen navigate towards the Setup Bluetooth. Later press Menu button and then select the options. Make sure that the 'discoverable property' is setup to no. it would make sure that the other devices aren't able to locate one when they conduct the search for the Bluetooth device.

Clear the memory of the Blackberry Phone -

On the Blackberry, from the options select menu then select security Options and finally select the memory cleaning. Such options permit one to erase the sensitive data like unencrypted e-mail messages and user ID or password combinations as well as the other certified information.