How to Identify and Prevent Dangerous Wi-Fi?

We're used to using home and business Wi-Fi, and it is safe in most cases. What about public Wi-Fi? Have you ever used it? Do you think public Wi-Fi is safe?

We may often need to use public Wi-Fi such as when staying in a hotel, working in a coffee shop, or when studying in a library. Public Wi-Fi can provide a great convenience in our daily life. Some people even go to public Wi-Fi specifically to save Internet fees. But do you know that public Wi-Fi is not always safe? It can be a phishing trap. There have been numerous reports on TV and news media of money being stolen by connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi. This article teaches you how to identify dangerous Wi-Fi to avoid information leakage and money loss.

Dangerous Wi-Fi generally has the following characteristics. Keeping them in mind will greatly prevent connecting to dangerous Wi-Fi.

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Generally speaking, safe Wi-Fi names in public places are specific to the place and keep neutral in semantics. If the name contains an attractive word such as free, for example "free Wi-Fi in cafes", it is probably Wi-Fi phishing. Hackers provide it to attract you to access.

In order to get you hooked, Wi-Fiphisher will pretend to be shop or shopping mall Wi-Fis by adding or deleting a character, or capitalizing a certain character, making it very slightly different from the Wi-Fi in the area covered. For example, a real Wi-Fi name is CoffeeShop_Wi -Fi, phishing Wi-Fi may be Coffeeshop Wi-Fi, which requires careful identification to see the difference. A quick click may cause a mistaken connection.

If the Wi-Fi name is normal, but you can connect it without authentication, it is still suspicious. In this case, you'd best check with the Wi-Fi provider. For example, when checking into a hotel or ordering in a cafe, you can ask the staff to confirm the accuracy of the Wi-Fi.

Generally, you will be required to agree with the protocols when you log in to the public network, which means that the network we log in to is from a professional source, and you need to fill in your mobile phone number to obtain a verification code before you can access the Internet. Please be vigilant if a Wi-Fi allows you to connect without any service protocols.

It seems that you can trust the Wi-Fi if it isn't peculiar when you connect to it. But when you finish the connection and are about to use it, it will prompt you to install software or other items. At this time, you need to pay attention. Do not click on the options on the screen to get online at will, it may implant viruses into your phone or steal your phone's permissions.

Dangerous Wi-Fi has huge security risks. Doing the following points will help you avoid Wi-Fi traps to prevent information leakage and money loss.

• Try not to use public Wi-Fi hotspots.
• Turn off "automatically connect to Wi-Fi" on mobile phones and tablets. Because if this function is enabled, the device will automatically scan and connect without a password when it enters an area with a Wi-Fi network, which will greatly increase the chance to be caught by Wi-Fi phishing, resulting in information leakage or money loss unconsciously.
• Install security software to help you block or remind you in time.
• Watch out for phishing websites.
• Do not conduct private transactions under public Wi-Fi. For public Wi-Fi hotspots, hackers often use pages disguised as regular bank pages or payment pages to mislead users to log in and obtain usernames and passwords. Please do not use the public network for private transactions. In special cases, you'd better switch it to the 5G data of your mobile phone. It won't cost you too much, but it's the safest.