{"id":12922,"date":"2016-09-09T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:48:41","slug":"tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12922\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the week: How to protect your data on open Wi-Fi networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve talked about the problems of open Wi-Fi networks<\/a> a lot. Really, quite a lot. In case you\u2019ve been living under a rock and missed it, open Wi-Fi networks are completely insecure.<\/p>\n

But sometimes there\u2019s no other choice. And when you hop onto an open network, you can be sure cybercriminals know it. They are always awake and alert: It\u2019s not uncommon to find them monitoring unprotected Wi-Fi networks, sniffing data, extracting passwords<\/a>, and collecting other potentially valuable information.<\/p>\n

So if you find yourself in a situation where it\u2019s unprotected Wi-Fi or nothing, and you need to, let\u2019s say, buy something online or send some e-mails, what can you do to protect your data? How can you avoid sharing your bank account credentials or your Facebook password?<\/p>\n

We have a solution to protect your data from unwanted eyes. It\u2019s a new function in our Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a> suite called Secure Connection<\/b><\/p>\n

To activate it, open Kaspersky Internet Security, click More Functions -> Secure Connection<\/b> and choose Open<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"Tip<\/a><\/p>\n

An app called Kaspersky Secure Connection<\/a> will open \u2014 it was automatically downloaded to your computer when you installed the latest version of Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a>. In the app you can activate the secure channel, which encrypts the data you transfer.<\/p>\n

\"Tip<\/a><\/p>\n

Now your data is protected.<\/p>\n

Actually, Kaspersky Secure Connection may help you with more than just protecting your data. To learn more about Secure Connection\u2019s capabilities visit our support page and read the articles about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if you have to transmit sensitive data and the only connection is open Wi-Fi? We\u2019ve got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":12923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[1852,1853,180,1791,97,709,174],"class_list":{"0":"post-12922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"category-tips","9":"tag-advice","10":"tag-tips","11":"tag-kaspersky-internet-security","12":"tag-kaspersky-secure-connection","13":"tag-security-2","14":"tag-vpn","15":"tag-wi-fi"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12922\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/7630\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/7639\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/7650\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/9076\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/8914\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12991\/"},{"hreflang":"tr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.tr\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/2553\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12922\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/6056\/"},{"hreflang":"pt-br","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.br\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/6547\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/8673\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12864\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12991\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-2017-secure-connection\/12922\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/tag\/advice\/","name":"#advice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24278,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/24278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}