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Smartphone Safety Tips: Free Wi-Fi Services Can Bring Hackers At Your Doorstep, Essential Ways To Protect Your Devices
If you are using free Wi-Fi in a public place, it can be a network of hackers. This may cause your data to be compromised.
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Sometimes as soon as we turn on the Wi-Fi on our smartphone, we are connected to free Wi-Fi devices. We may use the free Wi-Fi services without even thinking twice.
Beware! It might not be a free service at all, but a network of hackers ready to pounce. Through these free Wi-Fi services, hackers can enter your smartphones.
If you want to take advantage of a free Wi-Fi service without being targeted by hackers, then we're going to tell you a trick that will allow you to use Wi-Fi and avoid hackers.
Steps To Avoid Hackers
- To avoid being targeted by hackers, go to your phone's Settings and click on Connections.
- Click on Wifi. - Click on three dots and click on settings and go to Advanced.
- As soon as you click on the Advanced, you'll see a lot of options, of which you'll need to turn on Detect Suspicious Networks.
- Keep in mind that these settings should always be on whenever you connect your phone to Wi-Fi.
Avoid using free public Wi-Fi.
- Do not use free Wi-Fi or public Wi-Fi if you are in a public place. The highest number of security breach incidents are carried out through public Wi-Fi. Hackers can easily access your smartphone through public Wi-Fi. Never do online transactions using public Wi-Fi.
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