Urban Hotspot Shield

Using public WiFi? This information is for You!

If you are like everyone else, then you probably use public Wi-Fi hotspots quite frequently. Whether you’re at your local coffee shop, school library, or workplace, chances are you are connected to public Wi-Fi. Public hotspots, although common, cannot always be trusted. Many public connections are not secure and can cause you to become vulnerable to hackers, advertisers and government surveillance agencies who can all view personal and important information on your devices and use it for their respective purposes.

This information can range anywhere from passwords, email accounts and personal correspondence up to online banking information and sensitive images. When using public networks, the threat of your information being un-secure is astronomical. However, this breach of information does not only occur on public Wi-Fi networks. When you use the internet from home, you also run a risk of the government and large companies accessing your browser history, and online information. That pop-up ad you saw for a website you visited three days ago was no coincidence…