{"id":229,"date":"2007-04-02T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:58:52","slug":"beware-the-hotspot-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Hotspot Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting new scam: Hackers are setting up &#8220;evil twin&#8221; wireless hotspots in public places, hoping to dupe users into connecting through them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trick is simple: A hacker just creates a hotspot with the same name (or a very similar one) as a legitimate hotspot nearby, hoping to dupe web surfers into connecting to the hacker hotspot instead of the legitimate one. The goal is the usual fare: Collect user names, passwords, credit card numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the cost of sophisticated electronics falls, I expect we&#8217;ll see a lot more scams that will make us long for the days of simple phishing.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/blogs\/null\/23163\/beware-the-evil-twin-wi-fi-hotspot\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting new scam: Hackers are setting up &#8220;evil twin&#8221; wireless hotspots in public places, hoping to dupe users into connecting through them. The trick is simple: A hacker just creates a hotspot with the same name (or a very similar one) as a legitimate hotspot nearby, hoping to dupe web surfers into connecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}