Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Dangers of Public WiFi

    The problems with using a public Wi-Fi network. The open nature of the network allows for snooping, the network could be  the hotspot itself could be malicious.  Encryption can helps protect you prying eyes. People can see what unencrypted web pages you’re visiting, news, weather, email or banking, they’d know it, they wouldn’t know what you were doing. This is done with Firesheep, an easy-to-use tool that allows people sitting in coffee shops or on other open Wi-Fi networks to snoop on other people’s browsing sessions and hijack them. 
     The hotspot you connect to may be malicious. This may be because the hotspot was infected, or because you’re connected to a honeypot network
    Protecting yourself if you’re accessing public Wi-Fi can be done on an encrypted website. The HTTPS Everywhere browser extension can help with this by redirecting you to encrypted pages when available. You may want to pay for a VPN and browse through it when on public Wi-Fi.
    If you use public Wi-Fi regularly, you  want to take percussions. Allowing you to browse whatever you want.

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