Raising Awareness of WiFi Risks
I've had some posts (like this one) in the past on end users and how we need to improve user awareness. I also have an upcoming article on the topic but this morning a I came across one of those articles that worth tagging as one to pass on non-IT folks. This one comes from the Wall Street Journal via the Winston-Salem Journal .
The article, entitled Wi-fi users, beware: Hackers prowl public hot spots in order to steal your valuable data does a nice job of explaining risk of public WiFi, explaining man in th middle and evil twin attacks. It also includes some examples of WiFi use gone bad:
An employee working on a laptop in Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park used what he thought was a publicly available Wi-Fi signal to get Internet access. But the signal he used had been set up by a hacker. When the employee reached his company’s network, the hacker nabbed the employee’s corporate user name and password.
The article concludes with a list of tips for more secure WiFi use. This one is definitely worth passing on.
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