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5 Tips to Protect Your Phone from Hackers

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Celebrities and politicians aren’t the only ones who have to worry about hackers breaking into their phones. We all use our phones for many important tasks. Aside from the obvious ones – making  a phone call and sending text messages– we use our phones to take photos and videos, store documents and passwords and even to do our banking. Hackers can break into our phone by intercepting our phone calls and texts or hacking into the data stored on our phones. Here are 5 tips to help  protect your phone : Use strong passwords Avoid using obvious passwords like birthdays, the name of your pet or spouse, consecutive number sequences like “12345” or repeated numbers like “88888”. A password generator can help you create unique random passwords that will be very hard for hackers to crack. The CoverMe app contains just such a function to help you create safe and secure passwords. Use a protected app to store pin numbers and credit cards numbers Don’t just leave your pin numb

Second Phone Number for Private Calling

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There are many times in our lives when we will need a second phone number for some reason. For example – dating, work or just to have a convenient and safe private number to use for  private   calling. When you first start to date a person, you do not know how the relationship will go. It may turn out to be the love of your life or a nightmare that you would rather forget about. So it’s important to have a disposable number that you can easily set-up and terminate if the relationship goes sour. We sure don’t want to be bothered for months by that guy or girl who won’t leave us alone! CoverMe offers private phone numbers for the U.S. and Canada and they are real phone numbers that you can use to text and call anyone in the world. When your relationship is going great, you also can make use of the features in CoverMe’s  private calling . When you have one private phone number to use with your loved one then your  private calling  won’t be interrupted by other people. You can a

Let CoverMe Protect Your Messages!

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We live in an era where privacy is a luxury. Any photos , videos or messages that we send to our friends are at risk of being intercepted and read by others. If the message safely reaches your friend without being intercepted, your own friend may pass on your message to others without your permission. How can you make sure your messages are not intercepted or passed on without your consent? You can let CoverMe’s  encrypted messaging  take care of your security worries! CoverMe’s engineers are experts at designing functions to protect your private messages, photos and videos. Our encryption technology is proven to withstand brute force hacking and end-to-end  encrypted messaging  means that only you and your receiver can read the messages you send with the CoverMe app. Even if hackers can intercept your message, they will not be able to decipher your message without the unique encryption key held by your recipient. The  encrypted messaging  is so safe that not even CoverMe’s own

CoverMe Experts Reveal How to Really Protect Mobile Privacy

Recent news reports have shown vulnerabilities in popular messaging apps due to the network SS7 bug allowing hackers to assume a user’s phone number and take over their account. This is done by tricking the telecom network into believing the hacker’s phone has the same number as the victims. The hacker then uses the lost password option in messaging apps to get into the account via phone number verification. As easy as that, the hacker now has control of the victim’s account. As the forerunner in designing mobile communications apps to protect user’s privacy online, CoverMe’s experts have revealed how to really effectively  protect mobile privacy  such as securely hiding chat messages and personal photos on a mobile. 1. Phone numbers should not be linked to the account A privacy protecting App like CoverMe should never use phone number SMS verification as a method to gain access to an account and there should not be any link between the user’s phone number and CoverMe accou

Best Android Apps of 2016: 5 Apps You Must Try

Every year, new  are coming to the market to let you make the most of your Android mobile device. We’ve scoured the selection of new apps as well old favourites to bring you a list of the top 5  Android phone apps  you should download now. Best for Fitness: 7 Minute Workout We all have the best intentions to lose weight, but joining a gym is expensive and who has time to fit a session at the gym into their busy lives? 7 Minute Workout is such a great  Android phone app  because it focuses on short, high-intensity workouts that are scientifically proven to aid weight loss. Whenever you can fit in a few minutes, just start an exercise from the app and you’re on your way to a fitter you. Best for Secure Private Communications: CoverMe Provides end-to-end encryption to protect your chats and calls. You can store contacts, photos, videos and even passwords in a private impenetrable vault that can be hidden from view. You can even make your texts automatically delete after they’

A Secret Vault to Hide Your Private Photos

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Most of us use our smartphones to take some photos and also some videos. These photos and videos show the events in our lives and tells a lot of information about us. Leaving them on your phone’s camera roll makes it easy for other people to find. For example, if you leave your phone for a minute to go to the bathroom, the people around you can easily grab your phone and look at all your photos! That’s why you should use a  photo vault app  like CoverMe to safely and securely hide your private photos and videos. With CoverMe’s personal  photo vault app , you can import photos and videos from your phone’s camera roll directly into the vault. You can then delete the photos and videos from your camera roll. The vault is encrypted with military-grade technology and cannot be hacked and broken into. You can also take photos and videos directly from within the CoverMe  photo vault app . The photos and videos taken this way will never appear on your phone’s camera roll and is stored im

How To Hide Private SMS and Call Logs on Android

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The SMS records on your phone contain a lot of private information – who we are messaging and what we are saying. Our phone call logs can also reveal a lot about us – who we call, how often we call them and at what times. If you leave your phone unattended for just a few minutes, your family members or colleagues can grab your phone and read all your  private SMS . Or what if your friend needs to borrow your phone to make a call and then he sneakily peeks into your call logs and SMS? The best way to protect your call logs and  private SMS  is to use a mobile security app such as CoverMe to hide your records. With Android version 4.0 and after, CoverMe can automatically intercept text messages and send them directly into the CoverMe app. When you get a private phone number from CoverMe, all the text messages you send and receive from this number will not go through your phone’s messaging system but will instead go straight into the CoverMe app. Once your private SMS  are in Cover

Use CoverMe to Encrypt Your Phone

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The sensitive, confidential data on your phone needs to be protected from hackers and voyeurs, especially if you use the phone for business. For example, a business company will  encrypt their phones  to protect their sensitive, confidential business data and help prevent corporate espionage. Without the encryption key, hackers will not be able to decipher the data even if they can intercept it. If you are a regular user, you may think you don’t have any sensitive data on your phone and don’t need to  encrypt your phone , but maybe you do. If your phone is stolen, the thief now has access to your e-mail account, your home address, as well as any number of personal information. If you have banking apps on your phone, the thief can even access your bank accounts and transfer out all your money. For the regular user, CoverMe can help  encrypt your phone  with the personal vault, private phone number and decoy function. CoverMe’s personal vault can hold all your important data, su

How To Make Anonymous Calls

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Sometimes you need to make a call to someone you are not familiar with and you don’t want that person to know your real number. Once that person has your real phone number, it can lead to months and months of unwanted phone calls. You use your real phone number for work, for your business accounts and your private life. You can’t just terminate your real phone number and get a new one! Think about the hassle of contacting everyone you know and all the places you do business with just to tell them you changed your phone number? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to make an  anonymous call  and protect your real number? Sometimes you want to play a joke on your friends for April Fool’s Day or even just any regular day. Think of the fun you can have by pretending to be the government tax department and making your friends think that they are in trouble and sweat. But calling them with your real number will spoil the whole joke, of course. So how can you avoid using your real phone numb

5 Best Secure Chat Apps

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While emails are great for sending long, detailed information, it is not the best option when you need a quick response for short questions. Standard SMS messages are not secure and incur charges from your mobile carrier. To get the attention of your recipient and get a quick response, the best choice is instant messaging, but be sure to pick a  secure chat  app to protect your communications. Here are 5 recommended  secure chat  apps: CoverMe (Android, iOS) uses military-grade algorithms to encrypt messages from end-to-end. Once you send the message it will be encrypted for sending, then decrypted on the recipient’s side. You can set messages to self-destruct right after reading, after a certain time or you can remotely recall a message. A quick shake of the phone closes the app and displays the lock screen. CoverMe can be disguised as a news reader, so it will look like you are just reading the news.  Secure chat  group are also possible. Telegram (Android, iOS, Windows) fe

The Best Mobile Android Security App

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As mobile phones  become more sophisticated, we are relying on them to do more of our daily tasks – make calls and texts, store contact information, take and store photos and videos. Having so much private information on our phones make them vulnerable to voyeurs and we should use a  phone security app  to protect our valuable information. CoverMe is the best  phone security app   available for Android devices, providing military-grade protection to ensure your text messages can only be seen by you and the recipient. The end-to-end encryption scrambles the message after you send it and can only be descrambled by the recipient. CoverMe also gives users valuable security features to prevent others snooping information on your phone: Shake-to-Lock When someone walks near you while you are looking at private content, you can give your phone a quick shake and the CoverMe’s app will close and jump to home screen or the lock screen. With CoverMe’s premium version, you can even conf