What are the safe measures to take when using public Wi-Fi hotspots?

Are you using public WiFi? If your answer is "No", you are safe. If you are using public WiFi, your data on your phone or laptop is in an insecure position. Public WiFi may contain some harmful element that will keep the user's secure data at risk.

WiFi, which is available free of charge in publicly accessible spaces, is the service provided by government, community organizations and commercial enterprises. Now you can understand that I am talking about WiFi in public places such as buses, airports, shopping malls, train stations, coffee shops and public libraries.

You may have doubts that, what kind of data on your device is under threat? Public WiFi will affect not only the current data
on the device, but it will also affect the data passed ??on the device.

Measures must be taken to protect your data from unauthorized access.
public WiFi network:

 ? The best way to protect your data from a public WiFi network is to use a virtual private network (VPN). If you connect without VPN, all your Internet traffic is sent from your device through an encrypted tunnel to the provider's endpoint. 

There is software available on smartphones that will allow a VPN to start automatically when connecting to a public Wi-Fi hotspot.

If you are not using a VPN-configured device, make sure that the URL of your connected website must be HTTPS and not HTTP. Also ensure that your entire session remains encrypted as you browse. Some sites that will encrypt your login and then send it to an HTTP connection, which will put your data at risk, so explore those sites that will provide you with the option to encrypt the entire session.

Hacker is setting up a public Wi-Fi hotspot of his own near the public Wi-Fi site provided by the government or some community with the same name. If you are using the hacker's network, that will allow them to monitor traffic from your device. To avoid this, always make sure the exact name of the access point provided by the community hosting it. Also, make sure you do not see two access points with the same name.

 When connecting to the public WiFi hotspot, you should disable the file sharing option from the system preference or control panel. And avoid using a file transfer protocol or any other protocol to transfer data without VPN.

If there is a case, you only have one option to use an unsecured public WiFi hotspot. Understanding the risks and security measures can protect you from hackers. These steps are easy and could save your data.

Hackers can hack your data in many ways, using public Wi-Fi is one of those ways. Some cyber experts say that selling old smartphones can pose a big risk to you. Even if you erase all your data, hackers can recover it using special software.

I hope this article will be useful and help to keep your data safe on your devices. I am working at FuGenX Technologies as a writer. FuGenX is one of the leading Sharjah mobile application development companies which offers services in Android, iOS application development and mobile game development worldwide.

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