NSA’s Top Tips for Keeping Your Phone Safe (And Why You Should Turn It Off Sometimes)

We live on our phones. They’re practically extensions of our hands at this point, full of everything from our bank info to pictures of our pets. But as much as we love them, they’re also vulnerable. That’s why the NSA (the folks who really know security) has a few tips to keep your phone from becoming a hacker’s playground.

Smudge Attack! How Dirty Phone Screens Help Thieves

Your dirty touchscreen not only looks messy, it could help a thief break into your phone, tablet or touchscreen computer. Crooks are staging "smudge attacks" where they follow the pattern of your fingerprints to determine passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information.