Using Wi-Fi can lead you to the abyss

When you have to send an urgent reply to an e-mail that is not working and you have no choice but to use the Wi-Fi network at that airport or coffee shop.

Public Wi-Fi networks are very dangerous to their users, as there are thousands of victims and many hacking incidents that always occur in places with shared free networks, and the majority of open networks distributed for the Internet, whether in cafes or in public places, are always at risk of total penetration. And even hack your phone or computer as well very easily!

Here are 5 security risks and threats that you are more exposed to when you use public Wi-Fi:

1- Endpoint Attacks:
The Wi-Fi network provider, as well as the devices of users who use Wi-Fi connection are known as endpoints, which are what attackers focus on in hacking wireless networks as any hacker can access your device through that same connection.
Although your devices - a tablet or a phone - are endpoints that may be secure, hackers can gain access to any information on the network if any of the other endpoints are compromised. Which makes you unaware that your device has been hacked.

2- Packet Sniffers Attacks
These attacks are often called packet analyzers, and they are unfamiliar programs used to monitor network traffic and the information passing through it, as well as to test the strength of a network connection.
However, these programs are also a great hacking point for hackers to steal users' information like usernames and passwords through a method known as side jacking.

3- Rogue WiFi Attacks
It is a malicious wireless network setup by hackers with one intent of stealing the information of users who connect to these networks. Rogue WiFi usually has names that make it look attractive and tempting to users which tempts them to connect instantly.

4- Evil Twin Attacks
This is one of the most popular Wi-Fi threats that is somewhat similar to Rogue WiFi, but instead of having strangely catchy names, the hacker sets up the fake network to look exactly like a trusted network you know, and may have used in the past.
When you connect through this network, you are actually connecting to a fake network and then you are giving the hacker full access to the information sent or received on the network like credit card details, banking information, passwords for apps and all other sensitive information.

5- Man-in-the-middle Attack
This is one of the most famous public Wi-Fi attacks known as MitM attack, which is a type of hack in which hackers infiltrate between two interlocutors on the network without the knowledge of each of them, whereby the shared data that is exchanged between two or more users who believe that they are communicating with each other are manipulated. Some but there is a third party familiar with all of this. Public Wi-Fi networks that do not have mutual authentication protocols are most vulnerable to MitM attacks.