Free Wi-Fi in public places generally lacks safety precautions

At the World Cup in full swing when carried out, many businesses in order to attract customers to play free Wi-Fi and phone bills and other activities. In this regard, Baidu mobile guards experts remind fans friends in the cafe, shopping malls use free Wi-Fi to watch the event, pay attention to the use of security software to avoid falling into the malicious Wi-Fi trap, resulting in privacy leaks and unnecessary property damage. At the same time, the surprise "winning" message is more about the safety awareness.

Since the 13th World Cup has started, in addition to watching the game watching the night, there are many fans will choose to watch the World Cup with mobile phones. However, whether it is watching the video game or pictures, are very costly traffic, so the fans will choose to have a family of free Wi-Fi place to rub the match watching the game. For example, setting up public spaces with free Wi-Fi in bustling neighborhoods, public places such as airports, train stations, libraries, shopping malls, cafes and the like has become a hot spot.

However, there is no free lunch in the world. Security experts caution that due to the general lack of safety measures in the free Wi-Fi in most public places, coupled with the eagerness of the fans to watch the ball, it is most likely to fall into the category of hackers "Cottage Wi-Fi" trap.

For example, "rub clan" white-collar workers in Beijing Zhang encountered such a dilemma. Last year, when traveling to other places, she found several free Wi-Fi networks that do not require a password at a coffee shop. After habitually turning on the Internet connection, she did not expect the mobile phone malicious deductions virus trap, 500 yuan bill 10 Minutes are missing.

In addition, not long ago, a man in Shanghai also fell into the trap of telecom fraud set by criminals. Fraudulent agents fake the China Mobile number through the pseudo-base station to the man sent a "bill jackpot" SMS, see the operator number, the man did not suspect, ignoring the security reminder Baidu mobile guards, in accordance with the contents of the message to download the " For China Mobile Client ", can not disclose his bank account, resulting in more than 3,000 yuan stolen brush.

For these situations, security experts said that during the World Cup, telecom fraud and mobile phone viruses also started to heat up. As a result, most users also increased their awareness of security by using third-party security software to add a layer of protective cover.

In response to these circumstances, Baidu mobile guards as early as March of this year launched a "ring solution" including "application download fidelity, operating environment reinforcement, information transmission encryption, verification SMS protection," the four modules, including encryption in the transmission of information there Specifically for the detection of Wi-Fi operating environment, once found that users have the risk of Wi-Fi, Baidu mobile guards will prompt users to remind.

At the same time, Baidu Mobile Guardian new version of the "pay safes" feature is also specifically for Wi-Fi environment monitoring, intimate tips cell phone users to guard against unencrypted Wi-Fi network security trap, the formation of a comprehensive security "Golden Bell" .

At present, Baidu mobile guards have achieved cooperation with 6,800 cafes in 38 cities across the country. Whether they are international brands such as Starbucks and Costa, or fresh and niche carvings such as time, they can access Wi-Fi logos in cafes Page, you will receive Baidu mobile phone guards Tips: "Mobile payment should be cautious, install Baidu mobile guards, mobile Internet access, payment protection," thus remind users to use the public places more protection of personal information when Wi-Fi and Property safety.

However, most of the fans to be fully involved in watching the game security is Baidu mobile phone guards, "safe to pay 100 million yuan insurance plan", as long as the payment of insurance business to open, once the user suffered a malicious mobile phone virus deductions, bank account password Theft and other circumstances and cause economic losses, you can get a single maximum of Baidu mobile guards up to 3,000 yuan, the maximum annual payment of 100,000 yuan.