The Phantom Menace: Free hotspots

Wireless networks in airports, coffee shops and hotels that offer free internet access, as it turns out, are an excellent screen for hackers. Attackers can install their own access points, disguised as ' proprietary ' network so that the laptop owner who wants to connect to the Internet will not even notice the substitution. A role in this play and the fact that Windows automatically detects and offers to connect to wireless networks.
In this case the attacker acts as an intermediary, forwarding requests to the victim's computer to sites on the Internet, obtaining passwords, user names, card numbers and other valuable and carefully guarded information.
Experts also do not rule out the emergence of specialized Wi-Fi- worm, the virus that will infect all the computers are within range of the access points. This, in turn, poses a significant threat to the companies, as well as employees who are traveling with is not well protected against such attacks laptops, it can bring to the office of a very unpleasant 'gift '.
Source:. MCOnline.