Hackers Lurking in Hotel Networks
From Mark Smail
It’s not uncommon for even tech-savvy road warriors who pack their own EV-DO modems to simply hop on the hotel’s network instead of using up their precious bandwidth allotment for the month.
Unfortunately for the frequent flyers among us, recent industry research from TrustWave’s Spider Labs showed that hackers went after hotel networks more than any other destination in 2009, accounting for 38% of all known security breeches, more than the financial services industry (19%) and retail industries (14.2%) combined.
To make matters worse, the hotels didn’t discover that the breeches had even occurred for an average of 156 days, leaving plenty of time for the cyber-criminals to use stolen credit card information, or take advantage of the personal data harvested for any number of identity theft scams…
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