Wireless Networks open to Attack
Wireless [In]security1
We continue our pre-newsletter postings of links to Articles of Interest
Internet Security:
Do you use a wireless link at your favorite Internet HotSpot?
You might want to consider some of the potential risks associated with what
you are doing. For an overview of the latest internet threat to your privacy,
here is a link to a story of some concern.
Wireless networks
open to stealth attacks
"If you go to a wireless access point at
Starbucks and do some online banking, ... when you come in, my
computer can broadcast that it's the Starbucks' wireless access
point. You think you're sending securely to the bank, but you're
(actually) sending to me. There's a great threat (of) identity theft
in wireless networks. We haven't seen it yet, but it's the next
thing. In this hijacking attack, you don't know it's taking place."
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