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+-   Wireless Cybercriminals Target Clueless Vacationer on Friday July 10, @09:51AM schwit1

Submitted by schwit1 on Friday July 10, @09:51AM
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schwit1 writes "Story from Fox News about "The newest trend in Internet fraud is "vacation hacking," a sinister sort of tourist trap."

Cybercriminals are targeting travelers by creating phony Wi-Fi hot spots in airports, in hotels, and even aboard airliners.

In 2008, Silicon Valley-based AirTight Networks, a wireless security company, sent a team of "white-hat" hackers — good guys who try to thwart "black hat" hackers — around the world on an international airport study.

They checked the Wi-Fi networks at 27 airports — 20 in the U.S., five in Asia and two in Europe — and the results were not good.

And everywhere they looked, they found fake Wi-Fi hot spots set up by hackers phishing for suckers — and there were plenty of suckers to be had."
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