How does Free Wi-Fi steal your money
Last updated on May 19th, 2017 in News
You pay with your smartphone — you lose your money. New kind of virtual fraud will left you out of penny just for your loving to free Wi-Fi.
Interfering to your devices now is as easy as pie — no matter how firm your passwords and secure systems are. In malls and cafes swindlers create fake networks like McDonalds_Free_WiFi or Starbucks_Net. Those people who wanna save some money by using free Internet appear to be literally caught in a net. While you are spending the saved megabytes under a cup of American, they really charge off all you have.
The most unpleasant part of this is about total access to all content you have on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. The thief can find out the model of your gadget (iPhone 7, MacBook Pro, HTC or Dell Inspiron 576), to read all messages in messengers, to view your photos or even steal your Call Of Duty account. He inquires about the passwords to your banking apps and that’s the way he gets access to your cards and bank accounts. And it may take few seconds to steal all of your funds. The protection of an application itself doesn’t work — burglar just comes in under your password, so the app “think” it’s you!
If you don’t want to fall a prey to hacker’s cheats don’t panic and remember several safety 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.
VPN bonuses:
– Staying anonymous. VPN network changes your IP, so you become invisible to everyone.
– Unlimited access. Websites, applications and resources that are blocked in your country can be reached without any limitations.
– Other countries’ bonuses. In some countries apps offers discounts and bonuses to their citizens. With the help of VPN you also may use those.
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.
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