How to Hide and Protect Your Phone Internet Infromations From being Hacked Through Using Public Wi-Fi Connections.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Proxy Servers are among of the many ways that can protect your Informations from being stolen from hackers especially when you use unsecured public WI-FI.

Nowadays cybersecurity has become a serious problem, and the Internet usages has drastically increased. Some use public wi-fi which are unsecured.

Under such connections it is possible for hacker to fetch the informations of phone or a computer because the information under these wireless connections might be seen by the others who have been connected on the same network.

Let use this scenario on how hacker can get your informations through public wifi, you are on the bus stand which has free public wireless connection and you want to access facebook to check some updates.

You connect with public wireless connection at the same time there is a black hacker who need to hack your facebook account, Now you try to log in your facebook account as you log in bad guy is seeing your informations that you send through the public unsecured wireless connection.

Don't worry there are many ways to use to prevent this happening to you. In this post will greatly explain on how you can set virtual private network (VPN) using openvpn as a way to protect your informations and later we will see how we can use proxy to hide our identities for the same purpose.

Let's start with VPN(Virtual Private Network), this is a method employing encryption to provide secure access to a remote computer over the Internet. There are many vpn services provided by individuals or companies, paid and others are free vpn services.

We are going to use openvpn which is available on both Desktop and mobile phones,  download openvpn for windows/linux/mac via this link https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html.

Click the software for installation, For Android users you can download openvpn connect in google play store.

Then you will have to download openvpn files which has the extension of *.ovpn . This files can be obtained from the individuals or websites which provide openvpn service.

The most popular Open Vpn service is VPNBOOK which provides free vpn service you can get the openvpn files and account information which includes user name and password through this link https://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn

Next Post we will guide on how you can configure openvpn files on each operating system, keep touch with this blog.