Traveling this summer? Consider this before using airport Wi-Fi and charging ports
zdnet.com
The next time you travel through an airport, you should probably be a little leery of using the public Wi-Fi or USB charging ports, according to the TSA.
In a reminder posted on Facebook, the TSA warns that while these freebies are designed to be useful, they can actually be dangerous if a fellow traveler has bad intentions.
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Using a process called juice jacking, someone can install software on these airport charging ports that automatically transmits data -- including passwords and other sensitive information -- from your connected device. In some cases, your phone might lock down, preventing you from acting quickly to stop anything. In other cases, you won't know anything is compromised until it's too late.
This isn't a new danger, as the FBI warned about it two ...
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