September 13, 2025
Internet safety recommendations
We recommend that everyone be careful when providing personal information when using the Internet in general. In particular, when any website or smartphone application requires sensitive information, please pause and check carefully. If you are not sure, calmly consult your relatives, experts or find a way to ask the service provider directly before deciding.
Sensitive information includes identifying information such as phone numbers, emails, personal photos. Especially information such as identity card numbers or citizen identification cards (ID cards, CCCD), login names/passwords, etc., when requested, should be initially refused. Attractive offers, where you can get benefits for nothing, should be even more cautious.
We can trust reputable services that we have been using for a long time. However, we should always be on the lookout for unusual things so that we don’t get scammed by scammers pretending to be other service providers. For example, there have been scammers who created websites that look almost identical to banks’ websites to scam users:
Above is the fake website interface of a bank in the US with the address “update -citi.com”. This address is similar to the bank’s official website address “citi.com”
The bank's official website is "citi.com"
Internet applications today are equipped with very high data security methods and means, making it very difficult for data to be stolen. Even if we use them in public places, the safety factor is still guaranteed. Unless, as users, we "intentionally" (or are tricked) into providing sensitive information, this is the main risk today.
Is Wi-Fi Marketing Safe?
AWING is the largest technology software platform in Vietnam, connecting chains of locations providing free Wi-Fi together into a large Wi-Fi Marketing network. The partners on this platform are all large, reputable businesses that care about customer experience – they provide free Wi-Fi Marketing as a necessary utility of their stores/locations. Certainly, the Wi-Fi systems are invested in and operated very carefully, so the level of security is very high.
On AWING’s network, those Wi-Fi systems first need to secure internal IT services (ordering applications, payments, regular customers, etc.), and at the same time are designed for customers – on the same system. Therefore, it can be reaffirmed that their network system is secure.
AWING plays a role as a unit to help partners improve quality, at the same time, it is also a network capable of generating revenue from advertising sponsorship activities from many famous brands in the market (cars, motorbikes, real estate, consumer goods, technology products, etc.). This revenue helps partners reinvest to improve Wi-Fi quality, better serving customers. Over time, Wi-Fi has increasingly higher service quality and is more and more secure.
But why are there safety recommendations on Wi-Fi Marketing?
This advisory mainly comes from notifications from devices when the access point and the device (phone) do not work together, sometimes when the access point tries to forward from a website the user is using to the login screen. The basic content says that the access point is intentionally interfering with the security of the application, to "steal" sensitive information.
Is there any danger? Just follow the safety recommendations at the beginning of this article and you will not be at any further risk.
Please refer to the correct usage at http://awifi.vn . Or, contact the staff at the store/location for instructions.
Is there a better way?
Fortunately, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has officially released a standard description for the login screen, not only for Wi-Fi applications, but on all Internet infrastructures, including mobile networks.
This move proves that the login screen on Wi-Fi (in particular) will be considered the standard of the entire Internet industry and the trend of the future. The standard proposed by IETF will increase performance, enhance experience and will also thoroughly solve the problem mentioned above. It will take some time for device manufacturers to implement this standard.
