Wow, I knew a lot of people piggyback off of other people’s access points but seeing over 50% of people doing so is crazy!  Even though this study only dealt with a sample size of 560 people, it was pretty nuts to see that over 50% of them used insecure AP’s.  It’s studies like this […]

According to a recent study of retail stores being secretly monitored in malls, over 3,000 of them were transferring sensitive data (i.e. credit card info, SSN’s, etc.) completely out in the open.  That means anyone who is willing to eavesdrop the airwaves would be getting some pretty sensitive information on people.  Especially with the holiday […]

The results of this report were very interesting and honestly surprised me. Not only were malicious tactics covered, but the report also talked about secure operating systems and browsers. This report seems to be changing the paradigm on a couple of things: Internet Explorer will become more secure than Firefox and the idea […]

I found this to be pretty interesting. Here is an article where someone is discussing how piggybacking is pretty much harmless (’piggybacking’ meaning to connect to other people’s unsecured wireless connections). While this person does bring up some decent points such as hotspot owners not even noticing the bandwidth consumption from casual […]

While there are still a very large amount of unsecured wireless hotspots around, some have decided to play it safe and establish some security measures. Both businesses and personal users have decided to do various things such as disable their SSID broadcast as well as enable encryption. Unfortunately, sometimes precautions like these aren’t […]

This is one of those articles that everyone should read that uses public hotspots. While they are a nice convenience to have, they can be more of a threat than you think. Nowadays, there are tools publicly available that allow you to virtually create your own hotspot via your system that users can […]

Granted, public wi-fi is a very convenient and valuable thing to have, it is just not a good idea to enter any sensitive information whatsoever when you are using one. By ’sensitive information’, I mean everything from online bank credentials to even accessing your email. With the sophistication of eavesdropping tools widely available, […]

It was only a matter of time until this would happen. While the exploit was discovered by three people from the security company Independent Security Evaluators, chances are the word will be getting out about this exploit soon. Before you know it, the general public will have the knowledge of being able to […]

So I read this article today, and I was quite shocked. RSA recently completed a wireless hotspot security survey between top financial centers in New Your, London and Paris, and the results were quite surprising. Of the three locations, it appears London has the largest amount of secure hotspots. But get this, […]

If you found an unsecured hotspot at a coffee shop, how tempted would you be to use it to check your email every day? A lot of people probably would not think much of it, but a man by the name of Sam Peterson realized the harsh consequences of just someone else’s hotspot to […]