There’s a storm brewing, and although we have only seen the first signs, she’s gonna be a whopper! I’m talking about what I call the “Wi-Fi Security Crisis”, and if you don’t know what it is, better read on…
Q: Would you let a terrorist walk in off the street and call their buddies in Iran or Afganistan using your phone?
Q: Would you allow a pervert to use your Internet connection to download child pornography?
Q: If you are a hotel General Manager, would you knowingly allow a thief to steal the data from a guest’s computer?
EVERY DAY, this and much more happens at Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, but nobody seems too concerned about it — WHY?
Some recent examples:
1. A US Military wardriving team finds an access point installed on the base granting open, unencrypted, unrestricted access to the internal US Military unclassified network. The access point is accessible from a K-Mart parking lot outside the military base.
2. A six-page, full-color article in Russia’s “Hacker Magazine” describes in complete, step-by-step detail how to attack hotspots of three...