Everybody loves freebies, but do you know that freebies could sometimes
put you through unnecessary stress, perhaps even heart attack if your phone is compromised? What I’m trying to say is if you use free Wi-Fi to access sensitive information on your smart phone, your phone could be compromised. Public places such as coffee shop and airport are some of the most common places where people connect to free WI-FI because they are trying to save data on their phone.
Does this mean that you cannot use an unsecured Wi-Fi? Yes, you can via VPN which stands for virtual private network. There are based, service apps that help with secured data on your phone and they are quite affordable.
On the other hand, if you think you don’t need a VPN then make sure that you don’t sign into a bank website, your credit card company’s website and even your email account. If at all you’re going to check your email the first thing to do is to look at the address bar to make sure it’s the correct address. The website should come up with HTTPS and not HTTP, it’s an indication that you’re logging in to a secure connection. There should be a padlocked symbol next to the URL if this indication does not exist, it simply means that the connection is not secure.
One of the worst nightmare for anyone is to find out an unauthorised person has access to your:
- Email account
- Bank details
- Credit card details
- Sensitive information
- Pictures
- Videos
This is one of the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone, especially in this digital age, but then it’s pretty common, mobile devices are referred to as smartphones and yes no doubt they are really smart with the things they do for us, but you also need to be aware that Hackers are also becoming smarter.
One of the major mistakes we tend to make in the name of convenience is to have the same password for multiple websites, this is very dangerous. You must create different passwords for different websites and then use one of the services that store all the different passwords for you and then you log in to this various websites through this service automatically. This will create the convenience you crave which pushes you to use a single password on multiple website in the first place.
If the worst should happen and your phone is hacked then the Hacker will have access to all the websites you have an account with, it’s vital you have a unique password, doesn’t mean it’s completely safe but it’s some form of safety measure. The saying, “It’s better to be safe than be sorry is extremely useful when it comes to our data.
