Your local public Hotspot could become a warzone
Seems that public hotspots are becoming a good place for those not so
nice in the IT world to unleash viruses, sniff sensitive information out
of the ether, etc etc.
This article
mentions some of things that are happening as well as some methods to
combatting attacks.
In general:
- Have a firewall on your own machine up
- If you’re not using the network, turn it off
- Encrypt your communications as much as you can