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Public WiFi networks nowadays essentially used in stores, dining venues, hotels, restaurants, hotels, airports and many other areas since we need to keep connected with the internet to do our day to day work where ever we go.

But the public WiFi’s are mostly unsecured and leads to many risks for your private data, the free Wi-Fi hotspots desirable for consumers make them desirable for hackers.

Public WiFi Desirable for Hackers

Hackers sitting in between you and your public WiFi connecting point that make redirect your traffic to hackers network instead of talking with the hotspot.

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Meanwhile, hackers access to every piece of information you’re sending out on the Internet: important emails, credit card information and even security credentials to your business network.

Also, they are using public WiFi to distributing dangerous malware to the connected victim’s device that causing a pop-up window to appear during the connection process offering an upgrade to a piece of popular software, once you click on it then the malware will be installed.

In order to overcome from this kind of serious problems, A virtual private network (VPN) connection is a must when connecting to your business through an unsecured connection.

So even if the attacker sitting in the middle of the network, VPN helps to completely encrypt your traffic and securely passed the data.

In this case, using Third-party VPN sometimes not safer since there might some chance them to miss handling you data or store your personal data.

So hosting your own VPN on VPS is a highly recommended one and you can choose some of the best cloud VPS services such as .

Host your Own VPN on a VPS

Host your Own Virtual Private Network connection that sets up an encrypted tunnel between your client (whether it be your phone, your tablet, or your laptop) and a trusted endpoint across the internet far outside the wireless network.

VPN is basically a private network through which you can connect to the Internet. It makes your web traffic pass through encrypted connections to servers which are under the control of providers.

The are isolated virtual machines created with Virtualization technique. It runs with its own copy of the operating system and the users will have privileged access to the operating system instance.

All the network traffic between your computer and the VPS goes through an encrypted VPN tunnel, also the VPN on VPS also protects against hackers when using public WiFi hotspots. It is cheaper VPN when compare to the commercial VPN services and easy to use.

Important to have an own VPN

One of the most important reasons to install your own VPN is to be sure that your provider is not selling your browsing history to others. This is permissible under law and you cannot be sure of the integrity of all providers.

Besides, many providers offer limited bandwidth to their users and having your own will eliminate this problem.

With VPN server you won’t share the resources, so you get maximum performance. With the commercial VPN, there is always a question whether the VPN provider is spying on you.

So Better to have an own such as skysilk eliminate all the security risk and ensure the 100% your Data Safe on Public Wifi.

All you need is to get the VPS from the hosting company Such as , and then install a VPN server on the server they’ve provided to you. Be sure to configure your VPN server securely. You’ll want strong security so no one else can connect to your VPN.

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Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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