Suspicious Minds
I am going to have to assume that some (all?) computers are set up to
remember & connect to previous wifi sessions. What made me wonder was
someone was broadcasting an open node labeled "US Airways Free WiFi"
at the train station and I assume was hoping to attract someone
looking for free wifi?
remember & connect to previous wifi sessions. What made me wonder was
someone was broadcasting an open node labeled "US Airways Free WiFi"
at the train station and I assume was hoping to attract someone
looking for free wifi?
What exactly would this hypothetical black hat gain from such
behaviour? Are they actually hoping to steal passwords? Data? Credit
card info? If anyone has any ideas chime in!
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posted by -idogcow at 6:35 PM
1 Comments:
They could do all that & more. Sniff passwords, then once in the account, steal any stored info. A friend whose job is IT security for a global company & really knows what he's doing was seriously hacked recently for $50K worth just from his match.com account being hacked that had details that pointed to other accounts, ebay, paypal. He used the same username/pass so all those accounts were easy prey. Hacker also started pounding his home connection trying to break past his firewall. When he saw the email change alerts & jumped into action, the hacker emailed explaining he wouldn't stop because he considered him a "fun challenge"...scary stuff...so yeah, never log in to bank or credit card info over unsecured wifi, don't save cookies, don't let sites store financial info, don't use the same passwords for different sites, etc, etc...
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