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RE: Be careful accessing your accounts using public Wi-Fi connections.
Basic computer safety. Use a VPN is you are doing anything over public WiFi that you dont want to be stolen
Basic computer safety. Use a VPN is you are doing anything over public WiFi that you dont want to be stolen
This comment needs to stay at the top of the post. I would go a step further and say if you are on any public network use a VPN no matter what you are doing online.
What are the best locations/countries to set the VPN to?
VPN doesn’t to shit in this situation. This is sniffing. You log in to the network And people have the habit of saying I accept. He probably just accepted to give the person admin rights and sniffed his profile and keystrokes. Pretty much looking at everything he does on the screen to his password. Now better situation here is using 2FA. Now if he did this on his phone even that could be compromised. If you accept the connection and let it install a profile on your phone you are basically giving the dude access to your phone and your home screen. They can even probably launch the Authenticator app. Best thing here’s is awareness, if you connect to public WiFi don’t accept any rogue profile request. If the connection asks you for it then don’t even connect. Best solution is to avoid public WiFi’s unless you are in Starbucks or something. I even avoid those. If you really need WiFi on the go turn on your cell hotspot.
Upvoted so it can stay on top!!
Just not a free ones... they're not good enough.
(I know you know that, this comment is for people who read it and understand it wrong)
I had to double check, I knew I'd heard about SHA-1 being broken, Cisco had finally admitted at the beginning of the year- VPN is still effective, but only against attacks that AREN'T serious.