Hacking Wi-Fi Access Points

You will be surprised to know, how easily one can hack and eavesdrop a Wi-Fi hotspot, both secured and unsecured. A rouge Wi- Fi connection can be set up on a laptop with some simple programming and a special USB thump drive that acts as a access point. These rouge Wi-Fi hotspot have a new name "evil twin".

The hackers computer can be configured to pass the victim (of his misdeeds) through to the legitimate access point, while stealing/ decoding his data packets.This type of access point is hard to trace, because they can be shut off and on at will.While you still protected if you are working over a VPN, without VPN you are certainly at risk from a "evil twin". So next time you are sipping your coffee at Starbucks, make you sure to be on a VPN.