Many of us love to use free Wi-Fi while we’re traveling. But, as Stephanie Rosenbloom notes, this may put our public information at risk.

Ms. Rosenbloom offers four rules for staying reasonably safe while connected on the road:

1) Make sure that any site you visit has ‘HTTPS’ in front of the URL which means the page is encrypted.

2) Use a virtual private network or VPN which essentially encrypts all of your on-line traffic.

3) Sign up for two step verifications.

4) Bring only what you need and turn off what you’re not using. One expert recommends creating a travel email address and password.

Click HERE to read the whole story.