Next time you flip open your laptop as you wait for a flight or work at a coffee shop, beware, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The person next to you may be stealing your personal bank account information, address book and other files from your computer.
The agency warned earlier this week that the information on your computers may not be protected when using some of the 68,000 Wi-Fi hot spots, or local wireless Internet connections, around the country.
“Odds are there’s a hacker nearby, with his own laptop, attempting to ‘eavesdrop’ on your computer to obtain personal data that will provide access to your money or even to your company’s sensitive information,” the FBI said in a advisory on its Web site.
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Anyone who downloaded the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 needs to run an anti-spyware and anti-virus scan, then disable the pack for now. Mozilla warned yesterday that all versions of that language pack downloaded from its servers since Feb. 18, 2008, were infected with pop-up ad serving software.
Window Snyder, Mozilla’s chief security officer, said the Vietnamese language pack was contaminated as the result of a virus infection. “This usually results in the user seeing unwanted ads, but may be used for more malicious actions.”
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According to a study just released by consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, you — that’s right: you — may be the most important factor in the security of your organization.
It’s not swanky software security suites, powerful ASIC security appliances, or even how qualified your IT security staff happens to be (though all of that helps) that is the most important factor to security. It’s not even choosing Apple’s Leopard OS X over the Windows Vista operating system.
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