John, thanks for the input. I'm going to need the hotel info.
What is your own Mi-Fi? Is that via your cell phone?
TIA
Jane
On 11/10/14 7:16 PM, John Robinson wrote:
We all know this, thought I would send your way.
I have used my own Mi-Fi when I travel, I have never trusted hotel
sites for safety.
*Home Depot blames Windows for record hack, rushes out to buy Macs and
iPhones afterward*
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*BGR News*<http://www.bgr.com/>
Chris Smith
November 10, 2014
Home Depot has confirmed in recent months that it too has been the
victim of a complex malware attack, with hackers reportedly stealing
more than 56 million credit cards and over 53 million emails
<https://bgr.com/2014/11/07/home-depot-credit-card-and-email-hack/> in
a record cyber heist. /The Wall Street Journal/ has learned more
details about the attack, revealing that hackers used a Windows
<https://bgr.com/tag/windows/> machine as a point of entry, from
which they were able to spread the malware and collect customer data.
Interestingly, one of the first moves Home Depot
<https://bgr.com/tag/home-depot/> made after learning about the attack
was to purchase new, secure, MacBooks and iPhones for execs.
*FROM EARLIER: **Home Depot confirms 53 million email addresses stolen
in massive hack*
<https://bgr.com/2014/11/07/home-depot-credit-card-and-email-hack/>
It’s not clear what vulnerability in Windows the hackers exploited,
but Microsoft patched it after the breach began. However, that was too
late to stop the Home Depot hackers, who “were able to move throughout
Home Depot’s systems and over to the company’s point-of-sale systems
as if they were Home Depot employees with high-level permissions.”
CEOs beware of ‘dark hotel’ hackers
Arjun Kharpal <http://www.cnbc.com/id/101091325>|
CNBC.com <http://CNBC.com>
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Criminals are using hotel Wi-Fi networks to hack the devices of
business executives with the hope of gaining access to a company's
sensitive information, according to a new report.
The so-called "dark hotel" attack tricks hotel Wi-Fi users into
downloading malicious software that appears to be a legitimate
software update, security firm Kaspersky Lab said Monday.
When a guest downloads the backdoor virus, hackers install an advanced
key-logging tool, which tracks passwords and other sensitive
information, in an attempt to gain access to a corporate network.
After the operation, the hackers delete their tools from the hotel
network making an attack hard to detect in real time.
'Thousands' of infections
While the exact number of "dark hotel" attacks cannot be ascertained,
Kaspersky predicted that the number since 2008 could be in the
"thousands" with "hundreds" of hotels across the world compromised.
Their campaign is relying on a simple technique," he told CNBC.
A number of different hotel chains were vulnerable to the attack, Raiu
added, suggesting an issue with the Wi-Fi hardware.
"It is definitely not the same chain of hotels. The most promising
theory is that the hotels are using a specific hardware that has
vulnerability," Raiu told CNBC.
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