STUDENTS: Pankti Patel, Sneh Desai

ADVISOR: Marilee Mulvey

ABSTRACT:

Public Wi-Fi can be found in popular public places like airports, coffee shops, malls, restaurants, and hotels and it allows you to access the Internet for free. These “hotspots” are so widespread and common that people frequently connect to them without adequately preparing their machines for use on open networks. It brings a lot of risks like Identity theft, Data breach, malware infection etc. An estimated 81% of Americans uses public WIFI on a regular basis. In today’s world where there is data breach every other day, it is important for us as consumers to understand how to protect our privacy and security when using such networks.