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You excitedly unpack your new Wireless N WiFi router and set about setting it up. After spending an hour or so setting up wireless security etc. you get online, send a few emails, do some online banking, log into your Facebook and Gmail accounts thinking you are protected by your new secure all-singing-all-dancing wireless router, only to find that Google have just driven past your house and while taking some photo's, they also grab copies of your emails and passwords!
Of course Google was only able do this because we let them. By not encrypting our Internet traffic, everything we do through our routers is sent in plain text and can be read by anyone.
However, if we had been using a VPN Service like HeroVPN, then they wouldn't have been able to read any of the data. Maybe it's time to have the HeroVPN service running on your computers just like you have Anti-Virus software to protect from Viruses and Trojans.
The UK is to open a fresh inquiry into Google's Wi-Fi data harvesting after the company admitted its Street View cars captured complete e-mails and passwords. Read more about this story here.
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Ooouch!
A German security researcher claims to have cracked WPA-PSK WiFi passwords in just six minutes.
Most households now have WiFi routers, so if this report is true, then it will be possible for someone to access your network in just 6 minutes. This reduces your home WiFi network back to the security level of a Public WiFi Hotspot, none!
In theory this means that most WiFi sessions must now be considered insecure unless they use a VPN, so although we can't protect against our networks being hacked, we CAN secure all the Internet traffic that goes through then with the HeroVPN Service.
TalkTalk, a UK Broadband ISP, appears to have launched a trial of its controversial new internet "Network Security" technology ('Virus Alerts Service'). The system is designed to automatically protect customers from bad websites but has also caused a storm of controversy with privacy campaigners because it tracks every URL you visit and these may contain private information.
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A URL can contain sensitive personal data, such as names and addresses,and TalkTalk's service could still record these. In addition, while TalkTalk's security service gives customers the option of opting out, it's URL tracking appears to be mandatory.
Under the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), "interception of a communication" (i.e. such as URL addresses) is prohibited, a rule that is currently in the process of being tightened even further to match EU law. So it is possible that TalkTalk are in breach of this rule.
You can protect yourself from TalkTalk intrusion into your private habits by using a VPN service to encrypt your internet traffic before it gets to TalkTalk's servers, so all their service would record is your connection to the VPN server and everything else would be hidden from them. You can read more about this story here.
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Firesheep, is a new extension for the Firefox browser, that lets users eavesdrop on unencrypted traffic over unsecured wifi networks (most Public WiFi Hotspots), exposing among other things your Facebook and Twitter passwords.
This extension for the Firefox web browser makes it easier than ever for anyone so inclined to steal account information from other users logging on to websites via unsecured wifi networks.The Firesheep extension collects the “cookies” that websites such as Facebook and Twitter use to allow access, and then allows the user to “sidejack” other people's accounts.
Firesheep collects user information and shows it in a Firefox window, it then lets each account be taken over simply by clicking on it.
Cookies from Amazon.com, Basecamp, bit.ly, Cisco, CNET, Dropbox, Enom, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Github, Google, HackerNews, Harvest, Windows Live, NY Times, Pivotal Tracker, Slicehost, tumblr, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo and Yelp are all collected automatically, but other sites can be added if you know a little about programming.
Most websites protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but the majority do not encrypt anything else leaving you open to exploits like Firesheep.
If you want a more secure web, then take a look at our HeroVPN service which would protect you against the Firesheep exploit and much more.
You can read the full story on the Telegraph website here.
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