6.7.10

Protect Ourselves In Public Hotspots

Many places of us find public hotspots in places such as malls, office area, campus, airports and others. Most of them even provide services for free hotspotnya.

What we need to provide is a laptop or other devices such as smartphones, which has been equipped with the ability to Wi-Fi, and then connect to the hotspot connections are available.

Free hotspot service is exciting because in addition to not need to spend money, we can also fill our free time when in place. But we never know how the security.

Below are five steps that we can do to protect ourselves when her merry hotspots in public places:

1. Set the device to Wi-Fi we do not automatically connect to a network without our consent. By doing this we will be 'aware' that we will be connected to a Wi-Fi hotspots.

2. Often times we turn the feature sharing (share) on our laptop, so when we are in the public hotspot should first turn off features that share.

3. If current hotspots where we're doing a business transaction or want to share sensitive information then use a VPN connection.

4. Use firewall software on our laptop either software firewalls also congenital Windows or third-party firewall software are widely available.

5. Avoid as much as possible to pay bills or shopping online when we're using a hotspot. And another is to use one additional hotspot using WPA2 security.
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