Wireless Cybercriminals Target Clueless Vacationers

Foxnews ^ | 7/10/2009 | Staff

[Red in Blue PA]

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.

Vacationers on their way to fun in the sun, or already there, think they're using designated Wi-Fi access points. But instead, they're signing on to fraudulent networks and hand-delivering everything on their laptops to the crooks.

"More and more people are traveling with Wi-Fi devices like smartphones and laptops," says Marian Merritt, Internet safety advocate at the computer-security giant Symantec. "Airports and airlines and hotels are responding. They're setting up free Wi-Fi networks to lure in customers. Now they're luring in hackers as well."

[tubebender]

What a bunch of maroons.. You call that a vacation? No Shoes No Shirt No Problems..................

Don't forget your Viagra...

[webschooner]

OK, thanks for all your advice. My WiFi signal is secured using WEP, not WPA, but we don’t do banking or credit cards & such over the home WiFi part of the network.