Vulnerable: A customer using his laptop at a Starbucks outlet at Raffles City shopping mall.
THE next time you hook on to a free Wi-Fi network with your phone at your favourite cafe, beware: Hackers could latch onto your phone’s signal to break in.
Smartphones have a preferred network list of Wi-Fi points that they can connect to automatically. Information on this list is transmitted and sent out as signals when the connection is taking place, and a person who has specialised tools and knowledge can intercept the transmission and eavesdrop on this list. With this, that person can then break into a phone and steal data.
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