Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sidejaking Prevention

Sidejacking is away of using public airways to create a kind of password into your computer. it literally becomes a way for hackers to monitor everything that you doing over these public airways. If you happen to go to a coffee shop and log in to your E-mail account hackers can catch all that information and then go off and start acting like they are you, and you have no idea that that happened at the coffee shop. The problem with this malicious activity is that you will have no idea that it is going on because when you connect to the wireless network that is open, it is on a public spectrum so the stuff is flying in the air. So how do we protect ourselves? Install hotspot shield if you use "hotspots". Free download at http://www.anchorfree.com/ This will create a VPN - virtual private network between you and wireless access point so that this sidejacking attempt will be useless on you.

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