Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 16, 2021 What the Great Personal Data Leak of 2021 tells us about Facebook Last week, we reported on the 533 million Facebook users whose data was leaked online. Despite the severity of the leak and its contents, Facebook’s official response was: “We believe the data in … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 16, 2021”
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WiFi can be traced back to 1991, but it was in the late 1990s that the technology began to be taken up by the general public. Its success back then was by no means guaranteed. Although largely forgotten now, there was a rival approach called Home RF, which only gave up the fight in 2003 … Continue reading “How a 30-year-old technology – WiFi – will turn into our next big privacy problem”
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A vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress WiFi chips makes it possible for attackers on your local WiFi network to decrypt your WPA2 encrypted internet traffic. The vuln, known as the KrØØk (kr00k) vulnerability, has the designation CVE-2019-15126, ESET, the discoverer of the kr00k vulnerability, estimated that over a billion devices were affected. Apple products such … Continue reading “KrØØk WiFi vulnerability affected WiFi encryption on over a billion devices”
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If you are not a big shot hacker but want to hack into people’s accounts, the easiest way to do it is through phishing. But phishing doesn’t work on someone who won’t open your emails. The next easiest thing to do is to monitor their traffic on a public Wi-Fi. And it’s super easy with … Continue reading “How Does a VPN Protect You on Public Wi-Fi?”
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Oh, the sweet lure of a public Wi-Fi. It’s public, it’s free, and it lets you check your social media networks without wasting your mobile data. Don’t you just love the restaurants that offer free Wi-Fi? But before you connect to a free Wi-Fi, you should know about the dangers that come with public hotspots. … Continue reading “Why Your Phone’s Data Network is More Secure than Public Wi-Fi”
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It’s a little easier to attack some wireless networks than previously thought. That’s because Jens Steube, the developer of the popular password cracking tool hashcat, has found a new way to make the process easier, under the right conditions. We’ve developed a new attack on WPA/WPA2. There’s no more complete 4-way handshake recording required. Here’s … Continue reading “PMKID Dumping: WiFi Password Attacks are Easier Than Previously Thought”
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Public wifi – You’ve seen it before. Wifi names like “Google Starbucks”, “PEETS” and others. In this day and age, when we think cafe, we also think unlimited wireless internet – no questions asked. It’s almost a necessity. Indeed, traveling businessmen see wifi as more important than sex. According to numerous surveys by PEW and … Continue reading “What Americans do on public wifi”
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Wifi hotspots can be used to steal your passwords – this is a warning almost as old as public wireless hotspots are. However, there is a new theoretical attack vector that the growing number of public WiFi users should be aware of. Researchers from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and … Continue reading “Researchers show it’s possible to steal someone’s password using WiFi signals”
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LG, the Korean tech corporation, recently announced at CES that they intended to put wireless access aka WiFi in every one of their new 2017 devices. One such smart device that is slated to hit homes this year is the LG Smart Instaview Refrigerator. With this great innovation, you can tap the 29” screen to see … Continue reading “LG wants to put WiFi in every new 2017 device – why that should worry you”
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Traveling businessmen and businesswomen worldwide consider WiFi to be the utmost daily essential, more important even than sex, alcohol, or chocolate. The shocking results come from the iPass Mobile Professional Report 2016, which surveyed 1,700 “mobile professionals” around the world to gather their information. The data is starting to show that tech dependence is a worldwide … Continue reading “Traveling businessmen now consider WiFi more of a daily essential than sex, alcohol or even chocolate”
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