If you think a VPN is only for watching Netflix from other countries, this article will change your perspective. Also, a small surprise for readers at the end.

Not long ago… A close friend of mine called me in panic. He had been using public Wi-Fi at a café to work on client websites. Within days, unauthorized login attempts started hitting his email, and a few of his sessions were hijacked — someone literally got access to his admin panel without brute force.

This was a classic Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) scenario. The Wi-Fi was compromised. No fancy hacks, just an unsecured network and no VPN protection.

That’s when it hit me again — we, as tech folks, often focus too much on big cybersecurity tools but forget the basics like encryption and IP masking. That’s when I decided to try PureVPN.

Hey, I’m Satyam — a cybersecurity researcher and content creator. I write hands-on articles and tutorials about honeypots, firewalls, detection systems, and privacy tools. And today, I’m here with something you probably already heard of — a VPN — but from a real-world security perspective, not just another “top 10 VPNs” listicle…