{"id":6333,"date":"2016-09-09T05:39:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:12:35","slug":"tip-of-the-week-how-to-protect-your-data-on-open-wi-fi-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-how-to-protect-your-data-on-open-wi-fi-networks\/6333\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the week: How to protect your data on open Wi-Fi networks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019ve talked about the problems of open Wi-Fi networks<\/a> a lot. Really, quite a lot. In case you\u2019ve been living under a rock and missed it, open Wi-Fi networks are completely insecure.<\/p>\n

But sometimes there\u2019s no other choice. And when you hop onto an open network, you can be sure cybercriminals know it. They are always awake and alert: It\u2019s not uncommon to find them monitoring unprotected Wi-Fi networks, sniffing data, extracting passwords<\/a>, and collecting other potentially valuable information.<\/p>\n

\"Tip<\/a><\/p>\n

So if you find yourself in a situation where it\u2019s unprotected Wi-Fi or nothing, and you need to, let\u2019s say, buy something online or send some e-mails, what can you do to protect your data? How can you avoid sharing your bank account credentials or your Facebook password?<\/p>\n

We have a solution to protect your data from unwanted eyes. It\u2019s a new function in our Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a> suite called Secure Connection<\/b><\/p>\n

To activate it, open Kaspersky Internet Security, click More Functions -> Secure Connection<\/b> and choose Open<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"Tip<\/a><\/p>\n

An app called Kaspersky Secure Connection<\/a> will open \u2014 it was automatically downloaded to your computer when you installed the latest version of Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a>. In the app you can activate the secure channel, which encrypts the data you transfer.<\/p>\n

\"Tip<\/a><\/p>\n

Now your data is protected.<\/p>\n

Actually, Kaspersky Secure Connection may help you with more than just protecting your data. To learn more about Secure Connection\u2019s capabilities visit our support page and read the articles about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve talked about the problems of open Wi-Fi networks a lot. Really, quite a lot. In case you\u2019ve been living under a rock and missed it, open Wi-Fi networks are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"category-tips"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-how-to-protect-your-data-on-open-wi-fi-networks\/6333\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}