Best Practices When Using Public WiFi
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- Never connect to a public or guest wireless network again... Buy a personal hotspot and keep it charged and on your person at all times....
Ok, so thats not really the best of advice sometimes. Maybe you are in a place where you can't use your hotspot (like maybe a plane), or perhaps the hotspot died, or maybe you just can't afford one. There are a lot of reasons why someone may not be able to use a personal hotspot. In situations like those it's always good to follow a few best practices when using public WiFi.
http://baypointetechnology.com/best-practices-using-public-wi-fi/
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Always connect to a trusted VPN so all traffic is secured?
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"You really shouldn’t be accessing your banking information or really anything that requires credentials when your on public Wi-Fi."
Why not? Or to put it another way, what are the risks to using HTTPS? How does it fail?
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Use HTTPS/SSL with certs that are from a trusted Root CA. That is if the information matters.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
"You really shouldn’t be accessing your banking information or really anything that requires credentials when your on public Wi-Fi."
Why not? Or to put it another way, what are the risks to using HTTPS? How does it fail?
It can only fail if two conditions are met. DNS poisting to move the website, however this would have to be a new website you've never visited before because CA's will not issues the cert for a domain to someone else. Which means the same vulnerability exists when using your home connections. It must be a trusted/known site and be HTTPS.
