With cafes, hotels, shopping malls, airports, and many other locations offering their customers free access to public wifi, it’s a convenient way to check your emails, catch up on social networking, or surf the web when you’re out and about.

However, cybercriminals will often spy on public wifi networks and intercept data that is transferred across a wifi link. Using this, a criminal can access users’ banking details, account passwords & other private information.

Therefore you should treat all public wifi links with suspicion. Cybercriminal will even setup a connection name which is very similar to the actual legitimate wifi name just to catch people out. Once connected, it's very easy for the criminal to intercept your private information.

It's very easy to steal data used in via public wifi. Several applications like FaceNiff, Firesheep, Ethereal and Wireshark are free programs which can accomplish this. HideAway VPN can secure your internet connection in a public wifi hotspot. HideAway creates a private tunnel that encrypts all your data as it passes through the network.

Should I secure my connection? If you do any of the following

• Check your e-mail in a public wifi hotspot
• Login to social networking websites in a public wifi hotspot
• Login to bank accounts in a public wifi hotspot
• Share sensitive data online while in a public wifi hotspot
• Wish to secure your connection from prying eyes in a public wifi hotspot
• Use the internet at a library.
• Use the internet at a cafe, bookstore or hotel.
• Use the internet at an airport.

Then you should use HideAway to secure your connection. It only takes a few minutes and you'll be protected. Stay anonymous, private and secure when browsing the internet with the worlds fastest, most flexible VPN.