Is the airport's free Wi-Fi being used?
If so, then it would be good for you to know the following….
Even using free Wi-Fi at an airport, a hacker can find the opportunity and gain access to your laptop or smartphone.
The number of new programs that hackers discover is very high, with something new being discovered almost every day. It is easy to see why no one should feel safe on the internet anymore.
Kaspersky Labs (a company active in the internet security space) reports that there is an incredible 20% increase in the theft of financial data from mobile devices.
So more and more people are seeing and understanding how easy it is to fall victim to hacking.
According to Jurica Dujmovic of Marketwatch, there are some ways of stealing personal data and money that are not known.
Although until recently it seemed like a science fiction scenario, today the theft of data from a user's mobile phone has become a reality, simply by using an application that is directed through the perpetrator's mobile phone to the victim.
This is the NFCProxy application, which was presented at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas in 2012. The NFCProxy application has the ability to read and transfer data from credit cards, without even having to touch them.
Thus, cards such as PayPass, Zip, payWave, as well as ExpressPay from Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express can be read by the application.
All that is needed is for the perpetrator's mobile phone to be pointed towards the victim and without even having contact, the RFID reader will do the rest.
Thus, the stolen data allows sophisticated individuals to make their online purchases easily and quickly, and basically without anyone noticing.
There is also an NFC application that can remotely take control of a victim's entire mobile phone.
Georgia Tech programmers have discovered a way to make an iPhone “spy” that successfully monitors and memorizes 80% of the passwords someone uses on their phone (even e-banking) by guessing which key the user presses each time.
The keylogger application has the disadvantage that it must be near the keyboard that the victim is using to “guess” which key is pressed each time.
The Wi-Fi virus is not limited to smartphones but affects all users who connect wirelessly to the internet.
In this case, the malware appears not on the device used by the victim, but on the router where it collects the data sent.
In this case, after installing the malware, the hacker has access to all the passwords used by the victim and those who have connected to the specific router.
Usually our mobile phones find and activate the connection to the Wi-Fi wireless network on their own, but hackers discover names that resemble a well-known name that provides free internet such as “Starbucks” or “attwifi,” confusing the mobile phone that connects to these networks. Hackers immediately gain access to personal data and once they get it, they disconnect, without the user knowing anything.
Source: tro-ma-ktiko.blogspot.gr
