The Rise of Public Wi-Fi and Threats

The rise of public Wi-Fi is increasing daily, and as it expands, it comes with many new opportunities and challenges. In this paper, you will find out why most intruders use public Wi-Fi to conduct cyber-criminal activities and how intruders can easily access your data or download your data as you have connected through malicious public Wi-Fi networks. In this research work, a survey has been done to determine why people prefer public Wi-Fi networks or private Wi-Fi. Experimental work focuses on intruders using ATHEROS (Hardware) and Wireshark & N-Map (Software) to extract data from open public Wi-Fi. At the same time, using public Wi-Fi, how to secure your data and its safety measurements and tips are given.