Wireless Network - Carefree Web Surfing?

Wireless networks expand the concept of mobility and provide new opportunities for Internet access, which is often useful. However, do you feel safe using Wi-Fi? Or believe that it is not worthy of such a paranoid attitude?

You must be right in this assumption. But remember that Wi-Fi networks are protected inappropriately by default. Wi-Fi network settings require additional efforts on your part to make them safer.

By following the tips of this article, you can go far in ensuring the reliability of your wireless communications.
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Public access points are a big risk because data can pass through them in an unencrypted form, making them accessible to hackers. Armed with the appropriate tools, a hacker can easily “listen in” data packets, reassemble them and extract confidential information from them, such as mail account passwords, instant messaging chat sessions and other unencrypted data that inevitably leave your computer various authorization servers on the network. A method called VPN tunneling can help reduce the security risk of unencrypted connections, but it is beyond the scope of this article.

So, what can the owner of a computer with wireless access do to provide a secure Wi-Fi Internet connection in public places?