Hacker's personal information from the public to fake WiFi theft

Guangzhou has a number of public places have free WiFi (wireless network), many mobile phone users will be connected to the Internet without hesitation, thinking that the free take advantage of cheap, but may fall into the trap. Recently, hackers in Starbucks, McDonald's (micro-BO) These provide free WiFi public places, with a Win7 system computer, a wireless network and a network packet analysis software, 15 minutes can steal the personal information and passwords of mobile internet users.

Hackers 15 minutes to steal user information

Public information shows that at present, Guangzhou includes all districts (county and city), a total of free wireless internet hotspot Area 985, wireless access points up to 6,242. The distribution area includes Baiyun Airport, railway station, Beijing Road, Baiyun Mountain and other areas. Free Wi-Fi hotspot for the public to surf the Internet at the same time, but also increased personal information security worries.

Recently, there are hackers in Tianya network and other places posted, in Starbucks, McDonald's and so on usually have a wireless hotspot public place, as long as a Win7 system computer, a set of wireless network and a network packet analysis software, set up a wireless hotspot AP, you can easily build a WiFi, do not set the password. Users are hard to detect the fake WiFi built by hackers, once connected, hackers can steal 15 minutes of personal information and passwords of mobile internet users, including network silver password, stock account password and so on.

Home WiFi users should also beware of traps

It is reported that there are two types of WiFi traps: the first one is "set up", the second is "attack." The former is the use of users want to free WiFi psychology, in public places to set up free WiFi, tempting some of the users of petty gain, and record all the user's online operations information. The latter is mainly for some home network users. It is understood that now in some open broadband network of families will be their modem as a small WiFi transmitter, in order to facilitate mobile Internet at home. But this kind of mobile network is convenient for the user, but also provides the intrusion convenience to the hacker. Now a lot of tools to crack home network, once hackers cracked home WiFi, it is possible to remote control of the user's machine.

Expert ideas

Mobile phone stock users to use free WiFi

Information security experts say hackers used counterfeit WiFi to steal user information before, but because the previous mobile terminals had limited functionality and few people used WiFi, the hackers had not been so aggressive before, and another reason was that the previous WiFi use environment was not as good as it is now, With the three operators adding WiFi hotspots, the number of users using WiFi access is increasing, as well as providing more opportunities for hackers.

Insiders have warned that if a hacker believes that a user has available value, hackers can then use some tools for instant messaging and users browse the Web to carry out packet analysis in order to get the information they want. Therefore, especially the use of mobile phone stock users, must be careful to use these free WiFi.

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Operator networks are relatively secure

Relatively speaking, in public places, the current domestic operators to provide free WiFi hotspot security Relatively high, users can use the phone or text messages, access to free WiFi account, password. In addition, experts said, the vast number of netizens can also use a more secure 3G network, the current domestic operators have provided a variety of packages to users to choose, if the user needs a small monthly flow, you can choose the operator to provide 2G or 3G flow package.

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Check the access point name

When users choose WiFi hotspots in public, be sure to see the hot names, hackers will usually play very similar, easily confusing people Wi-Fi name, such as Starbucks 2, KFC1 and so on, users in the Internet, must ask the on-site counter staff, can not easily choose. Even if you set up a wireless network, users have to regularly modify the home WiFi password, and password settings to use a high level, can not arbitrarily set a simple number.

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Do not set up automatic connection WiFi

It is understood that some mobile phone network settings, there is WiFi automatic connection function, as long as free wifi on the automatic connection. But often these users can easily be "uninformed" in the case of falling into someone else's trap. So it's best to set the WiFi connection to manual and turn it on when you want to use it.