Danger Behind Using A Public Wi Fi And Precautions To Do Before Using It
Do you have Wi-Fi enabled smartphone and are you using it for connecting to Public Wi-Fi’s? There are several risks about the usage of public Wi-Fi in your Smart Phone, Tablet or in laptops. Wi-Fi means Wireless Fidelity, where data and information are passing over air. These information could be easily decoded by a professional who works behind the Wi-Fi.
This article deals with the problems of using public Wi-Fi and solution to protect your data while using public Wi-Fi.
As I mention early, data passing over Wi-Fi are over Air. That means the technology behind the Wi-Fi Hotspot acting as a main Loop hole against security. All you know that a single Wi-Fi could be accessed by as much as people possible from any nearby locations. It simply means that, with proper medium any one can decode that travelling signals from the surrounding.
Another method of hacking was done by make fake Wi-Fi gateways. The Wi-Fi technology gets simpler as Wi-Fi Hotspot could be created even in a simple Smart phone of 100$. Hackers easily made a hotspot without any passwords [Open Wi-Fi] and catch up their preys. The information such as username and passwords passing through those gate ways could be very easily decoded.
While cooking up this article, I remember one of the article came on Times Of India regarding hacking done on one of the famous International Airport in India. A traveller lost his money by using public Wi-Fi with his credit card details.
It is quite difficult to find out which of the Wi-Fi are dangerous and not. It doesn’t matter if you loss one of your Facebook or gmail account till it is personally targeted. But after you lose your basic and necessary details like credit card, Bank details or any such unbelievable losses, you will understand the risks involved in it. So “Prevention is better than Cure”.
One of the popular method to keep such data are by the using of VPN’s. VPN [Virtual Private Networks] allows you to manage and keep all data sending and receiving over internet securely A special type of encoding makes information highly encrypted.In One of our previous post, we had discussed about VPN’s and about the best VPN’s for smartphones. So please keep an eye on it.
This article deals with the problems of using public Wi-Fi and solution to protect your data while using public Wi-Fi.
How your information was exploited through public Wi-Fi?
As I mention early, data passing over Wi-Fi are over Air. That means the technology behind the Wi-Fi Hotspot acting as a main Loop hole against security. All you know that a single Wi-Fi could be accessed by as much as people possible from any nearby locations. It simply means that, with proper medium any one can decode that travelling signals from the surrounding.
Another method of hacking was done by make fake Wi-Fi gateways. The Wi-Fi technology gets simpler as Wi-Fi Hotspot could be created even in a simple Smart phone of 100$. Hackers easily made a hotspot without any passwords [Open Wi-Fi] and catch up their preys. The information such as username and passwords passing through those gate ways could be very easily decoded.
While cooking up this article, I remember one of the article came on Times Of India regarding hacking done on one of the famous International Airport in India. A traveller lost his money by using public Wi-Fi with his credit card details.
How to escape from public Wi-Fi hacking?
It is quite difficult to find out which of the Wi-Fi are dangerous and not. It doesn’t matter if you loss one of your Facebook or gmail account till it is personally targeted. But after you lose your basic and necessary details like credit card, Bank details or any such unbelievable losses, you will understand the risks involved in it. So “Prevention is better than Cure”.
One of the popular method to keep such data are by the using of VPN’s. VPN [Virtual Private Networks] allows you to manage and keep all data sending and receiving over internet securely A special type of encoding makes information highly encrypted.In One of our previous post, we had discussed about VPN’s and about the best VPN’s for smartphones. So please keep an eye on it.
I hope you understand about the topic. I don’t force anyone to use VPN while using Facebook or gmail through public Wi-Fi. What a hacker get by hacking your small accounts? But beware and take precautions before passing your confidential details over Wi-Fi.
