Playing with money
Don’t perform financial or other sensitive transactions, including banking or filing taxes on public Wi-Fi networks, says Alan Brill, a senior managing director with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice. “An attacker may capture your online bank’s credentials or credit card information.”
He says “the two biggest threats to using public Wi-Fi are hackers who are able to set up ‘man-in-the-middle’ attacks and intercept all your activity on that network, combined with the inherent lack of privacy posed by unsecured connections.”
