How To Stay Safe Online

Nick Savvides, Security Advocate, Norton by Symantec.

- Alvin Soon

What’s so dangerous about using public Wi-Fi?

One of the big things is that a bad guy can monitor all your communications. They are looking to do things like password theft, user profiling, injection of malware. The other is a general online issue, where you’re continuously monitored by ad profiling networks that understand who you are, where you are, and what you’re doing.

We know most consumers are concerned about this. And a big focus on what we do at Norton is to make it more secure for people to go online, with tools like WiFi Privacy that encrypts internet traffic so no one can observe what you’re doing.

You once said that passwords are crap. Why?