Nowadays more and more people are becoming online. More and more people do their day to day financial transactions on internet whether it be trading in stocks , withdrawing money from bank or transfer money to another person's account. The reason is obvious , world wide web provides convenience like never before. You do not have to be physical present in bank to complete transactions.

But this convenience has its downside too. More and more people and even big organisations are becoming victims of cyberfraud and hacking. There has been instances where a malicious hacker has stolen the information from a victims mobile and transferred his money in his own account.

And this risk is even greater when someone does transactions from mobile phones. Beacuse mostly person is not aware of the fact that his mobile can also be infected as his computers. And most of the people take for granted the fact that in their web enabled there may be spyware programs which may compromise the security of their mobile phones. Given below are the certain measures that can be taken to prevent mobile phone from being hacked.

a) Install the antivirus software : There are many anti-virus software available which are specially crafted for mobile phones. One should install a good anti virus software.

b) Keep the anti-virus software updated : Once you install the anti-virus software in your mobile , still you can not be sure that it will work forever. As technology progresses , newer threats are being invented everyday. So there is need to keep your anti-virus software updated , so that it is able to secure your phone against new threats.

c) Install Anti-spyware software : Only installing anti-virus software is not enough. There are certain king of malicious software called spywares. These spywares do not harm your mobile in anyway. What they do is , they send the sensitive information like passwords to the hackers. Tus installing anti-spyware software will go a long way in securing your mobile.

d) Keep the Mobile software updated : Mobile phones has their own software built in . From time to time vendors of these mobiles find security loopholes in their softwares and update the software. So it is good to keep your mobile software updated.