How to Prevent a Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Attack

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 5, 2008

“And that’s just one kind of Wi-Fi-based attack. It gets
worse. When you connect over Wi-Fi, a lot of relatively sensitive
information (e.g., passwords, session IDs, cookies) is routinely
passed unencrypted and is thus open to being trivially sniffed by
anyone else on the same Wi-Fi site. That person sitting next to you
in the coffee shop could well be running a sniffing tool like
Wireshark and collecting anything sensitive that your browser or
email client emits.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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