How does Free Wi-Fi steal your money
Last updated on May 19th, 2017 in News
It appears that harmless nets that we always look for in public places, such as McDonalds_Free_WiFi or Starbucks_Net, may not save our money but steal some. A new kind of virtual fraud allows to interfere in your personal data and get information out of it.
You may understand whether your own net is protected: if you didn’t protect it so it’s not. In this case your passwords, correspondence, photo, Apple ID or CVV are opened for everyone willing to have it.
— You should realize, that even strong protection of mobile applications cannot save you from stealing.
— Even talking about bank-app passwords or E-wallets?
— Yes, they also become useless. A fraud acts on higher level, interfering in the net from the inside.
— You mean my smartphone perceive him as me?
— Exactly! In other words, it looks like you enter your PIN shouting it out loud.
So if you don’t want to fall a prey to cheaters don’t panic and remember several simple rules.
1. Turn off Wi-Fi while not using it, so your device wouldn’t connect to insecure nets automatically.
2. If you use public nets because of bad signal of your connection you better choose another ISP.
3. Do not search for the net yourself: clarify its name and password from the staff. Pay attention, cause Starbucks and Starrbucks are not the same. If you see both — start being suspicious.
4. Try not to transmit any significant operations, especially payment transactions, by means of public nets.
5. Do not connect to unknown nets. No matter it’s protected with a password or not.
6. Defend your device with private VPN network, that covers any connection. Your information in this case is not passed in public, but like through a “tunnel”. VPN codes everything you do, ranging from what you enter to where you enter, defending information from the external world with a separate password that is known only to you and the reception point (for example, to the banking system or the recipient of your information). Nowadays this is the most reliable and simplest way to protect information when using public networks.
About the fears: VPN will not affect the flow rate, there are no traffic restrictions, so you can watch video or play online games with no loss in quality. And you can use even blocked resources — as a bonus. You can connect the VPN-network free, but with limited functions. The best option for the start is trying a paid network in a free test mode, and then decide how useful it is for you.
You might think that you have nothing to hide, but take your time. Maybe, you do not have photos of bare Nikki Minage’s, but it would be no good to see 0 on your Visa Classic account. So, remember these simple tips and share this text with your friends and family.
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