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Your smartphone automatically saves your credentials to make it easier to connect to the same network next time. So the smartphone accumulates a whole list of unused connections to different networks. This carries the risk that scammers can get into your device through them, according to experts in the field of information security.
Head of Information Security at the Roskachestvo Digital Expertise Center Sergey Kuzmenko:
— Hacking of users ' phones via the Wi-Fi network is not widespread, but it is not known who, when and how can connect to you. All open networks have authorization systems to provide protection, but fraudsters can install their own repeaters. And then the user's gadget, thinking that it connects to a previously familiar Wi-Fi point, actually connects to scammers. Therefore, for your own security, we recommend deleting all connection data immediately after the session ends and not allowing automatic connection to Wi-Fi networks. You must choose when and how to connect to the Wi-Fi network.
Sergey Polunin, Head of the Infrastructure IT Protection Group at Gazinformservis:
"Wireless network technology itself is continuously undergoing its own stages of evolution, during which it becomes more convenient and safer. However, all these security mechanisms need to be configured and kept up-to-date, which is not always the case.
Head of Information Security at the Roskachestvo Digital Expertise Center Sergey Kuzmenko:
— Hacking of users ' phones via the Wi-Fi network is not widespread, but it is not known who, when and how can connect to you. All open networks have authorization systems to provide protection, but fraudsters can install their own repeaters. And then the user's gadget, thinking that it connects to a previously familiar Wi-Fi point, actually connects to scammers. Therefore, for your own security, we recommend deleting all connection data immediately after the session ends and not allowing automatic connection to Wi-Fi networks. You must choose when and how to connect to the Wi-Fi network.
Sergey Polunin, Head of the Infrastructure IT Protection Group at Gazinformservis:
"Wireless network technology itself is continuously undergoing its own stages of evolution, during which it becomes more convenient and safer. However, all these security mechanisms need to be configured and kept up-to-date, which is not always the case.
