Mobile phone ceng WiFi password or hackers steal

In starbucks, McDonald's (the Po) these provide free WiFi public occasions, and in a Win7 system computer, a wireless network and a network packet analysis software, 15 minutes to steal their phones to access the Internet users' personal information and password. Security professionals has admitted that, this method will work.

Free WiFi may lead to privacy leak

A hacker said, like starbucks, McDonald's and so on users usually use their cellphones to access the Internet, but the general to ask for password; The WiFi do not set password from, can easily access, many users will be a priority connection, it is easy to attract "fisher told", and then to peep the user privacy. Mobile phone users if default UCWeb Settings, Internet information more easily to be stolen.

A domestic well-known security services an engineer, says the trap may actually work. He explained: "use computer login net silver, pay treasure to (the Po), will automatically jump to the encrypted HTTPS site operation. But browser in order to improve the speed of UC visit, there is a direct request agreement will hold back, turn to its own database of transfer deal with, leading to the original encryption password into expressly to send, help hackers tell the cracked process."

China mobile Internet users and more than 356 million

Netizens to reply, if net silver, pay treasure to password can this be stolen, the account funds became board undoubtedly fish, Jackson.

In view of these situations, the UC on 21 February release statement denying have related loophole, says the company rapidly according to the content of the verification, the situation is not referred repetition, so they think that this is the rival deliberately into disrepute.

In UC stressed: "this is the essence of user visits the fishing WiFi, users once visited fishing WiFi, whether mobile phone or computer of any application would have leaked the risk of personal information, and application in what visit business."

The same day, famous clouds loophole platform released the bo says, current wireless security concern, especially the fishing WiFi, is a great risk. According to the latest data statistics, China mobile Internet user is more than 356 million, mobile Internet safety more attention.

Engineers surveyed court, if the user in free WiFi environment the urgent need to get to the Internet, can through the net silver, pay treasure to cellphone APP client connection, safety than in the browser.