A hacker intercepted your WiFi traffic, stole your contacts, passwords, & financial data. Here’s how
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A hacker intercepted your Wi-Fi traffic and stole your contacts, passwords, and financial data. Here’s how.IntroductionAs the holiday season was in full swing, a hacker sporting a hoodie, sitting in a car with antennae on the dashboard and a computer on his lap, sat in a parking lot outside a popular cafe chain. Passersby, busied and high on holiday cheer, buzzed in and out and sometimes even stayed for a while.As he watched Wi-Fi traffic for several hours, nobody called the police or even seemed to notice. People accessed websites like Netflix and Google insecurely over HTTP, revealed all of their browsing activities, made phone calls revealing phone numbers, and sent plenty of unencrypted traffic available for him to intercept or modify at will to carry out phishing or vishing attacks. (...)
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