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With more and more phones incorporating Wi Fi it stands to reason that more and more people are looking to access Wi Fi hotspots as and where they can. As ever ease of use goes hand in hand with ease of fraud.....
It is very easy for someone to set up a honeytrap to try and spy and steal confidential information. For example, lets imagine you are in the city and are in a coffee shop called ' Acme'and you turn the Wi Fi on your phone or laptop and see an open hotspot called "AcmeCoffee" - stand to reason you can connect for free and surf away right? Well not always....
It would be very easy for someone to have a nearby laptop or PC that is in access point mode and has the name "AcmeCoffee". This means when you connect they can view everything you send or receive even if it is encrypted...they could also choose to manipulate the sites you see to allow them to store malicious Trojans or Spyware on your device.
So what to do ? In an ideal world you should only connect to Hot Spots using software provided by the Hot Spot provider - very few at this point do so this is not very practical either right now - with identity theft becoming prevalent every day it pays to know the dangers and be careful....
