Secret Service: Crooks Can Steal Your Info From Hotel Computers
Jul 14, 2014, 1:55 pm
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Secret Service: Crooks Can Steal Your Info From Hotel Computers
Keylogger malware can be present on computers in hotel business centers and thanks to it everything from passwords to other personal data can captured by crooks.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
Jul 14, 2014, 2:28 pm
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Keylogger malware can be present on computers in hotel business centers and thanks to it everything from passwords to other personal data can captured by crooks.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
Jul 14, 2014, 2:58 pm
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Keylogger malware can be present on computers in hotel business centers and thanks to it everything from passwords to other personal data can captured by crooks.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/trav...ervice-n155311
With the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, who still uses public access terminals?
Boarding pass, hotel reservations and other itineraries need to sometimes be printed out. Then there are things like venue tickets that need to be printed out as the alternative would be to buy tickets for a marked up price or to wait in long lines to pick up a ticket even at will-call.
Jul 14, 2014, 3:50 pm
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Whenever I have to print out things, too often there is no great alternative that is as readily available.
Boarding pass, hotel reservations and other itineraries need to sometimes be printed out. Then there are things like venue tickets that need to be printed out as the alternative would be to buy tickets for a marked up price or to wait in long lines to pick up a ticket even at will-call.
Boarding pass, hotel reservations and other itineraries need to sometimes be printed out. Then there are things like venue tickets that need to be printed out as the alternative would be to buy tickets for a marked up price or to wait in long lines to pick up a ticket even at will-call.
Occasionally I have to just use the hotel/public computer to login my gmail, I have 2SV enabled on my account so that will make things a little better.
Jul 14, 2014, 6:20 pm
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I print/save as PDF and save the file as a draft to a burner email account and then print from that burner email account draft -- that is for mundane things.
Jul 14, 2014, 7:50 pm
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Internet cafes are the same case as hotel business centers, unsecured WiFi spots are not. For example, it's safe to use Gmail in unsecured WiFi with your own devices if you don't ignore all the security warnings (if any), but it's NOT safe to use internet cafes/hotel business centers to use your Gmail account.
Jul 14, 2014, 9:47 pm
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I'm shocked that anyone finds this shocking 
Unless you are using some form of two factor authentication, you should never use a public computer to access sensitive data. Never. Never ever. Library, hotel business center, computer at a retail store, wherever. Never.
Unless you are using some form of two factor authentication, you should never use a public computer to access sensitive data. Never. Never ever. Library, hotel business center, computer at a retail store, wherever. Never.
Jul 14, 2014, 11:02 pm
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Jul 15, 2014, 10:19 am
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LOL
I've done the same thing. Its interesting what you will find. Everything from pictures to work documents.
I occasionally browse the various download folders on hotel PCs. Makes interesting reading 
I would never login to anything on someone else's PC. If I needed to print a BP, I'd download it on my laptop and upload to a web server and print from there, or just connect my laptop direct to the printer.
I would never login to anything on someone else's PC. If I needed to print a BP, I'd download it on my laptop and upload to a web server and print from there, or just connect my laptop direct to the printer.
Jul 15, 2014, 1:02 pm
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No kidding, on a public computer network - it's very easy to see everyone signed into the popular "domain" of Workgroup, and see that it's xxxx's computer or yyyy's Dell zzz. It doesn't take much effort to tap the Shared Folders to pick n choose any & all available MP4's or whatever.
Geesssh, I thought for a moment they have come up with a N S A sanctioned solution in the interest of xxxxx xxxxxxx.
Wishful thinking, of course.
Geesssh, I thought for a moment they have come up with a N S A sanctioned solution in the interest of xxxxx xxxxxxx.
Wishful thinking, of course.