Watchdog finds public Wi-Fi hotspots open to hackers

Connections provided by the UK's top three Wi-Fi networks - BT Openzone, The Cloud, and T-Mobile - are all vulnerable to attack by hackers, leaving people at risk of fraud, according to BBC's Watchdog.

In a programme due to air on Thursday night, it claims that the thousands of hotspots available nationwide - in hotels, trains, airport lounges and high street food outlets - are less safe than they appear.

Watchdog said that it

used equipment readily available on the internet to hijack wireless traffic at a variety of hotspots, while experts working with the programme-makers could have been able to take control of other hotspot users' internet accounts. Once inside these accounts, malicious hackers would have then been able to harvest masses of personal data which could enable them to access the users' accounts on a variety of websites, including those for shopping and banking.

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Open VPN

OpenVPN is a free and open source software application that implements virtual private network (VPN) solutions for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities.

It uses SSL/TLS security for encryption and is capable of traversing network address translators (NATs) and firewalls. It was written by James Yonan and is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Open VPN is much better and more reliable than PPTP VPN, but requires a more complicated set up on your local computer.

Mobiles devices such as IPHONE and Blackberry, currently don't support OPEN vpn and you would have to also use PPTP VPN.

Here is a typical OpenVPN installation on windows

Unblock Facebook

There are many countries now that block Facebook, countries like China, but not limited to use their government controls as the ISP's to block Facebook and they are also activity looking for websites that try and unblock Facebook, this includes proxy sites, vpn sites etc.

They also use other sophisticated techniques to continue to even block the best VPN providers by blocking ports or totally blocking the PPTP VPN protocol.

Not all VPN providers will be able to support the every changing rules that China put into place for the VPN blocking.



The Best VPN provider we found for all round support and a technical help desk was proXPN

Providers of secure internet services such at proXPN and becoming very popular, but many of the come with a price per month, proXPN were offering a limited beta trial for free.

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Why use a VPN account

There are a whole host of reason that you should be using a VPN to do your day to day activity online.
Cyber crime is growing at a phenomenal rate and more and more people are becoming a target of identity theft.

Don't become a statistic and protect yourself with a trusted VPN provider.

* Hide your real IP number
* Secure you internet connection
* Get an IP address out of another country
* Stop spying in the coffee shop/open wireless/office/school/work/uni etc
* Bypass filters and proxys
* Access blocked or government restricted sites (If you were in Thailand, UAE, Egypt etc. There are many sites you can't see from there).
* Access GeoGraphical restricted webistes like hulu.com / BBC iPlayer & Channel 4
* Bypass ISP speed limits on P2P networks
* Play online games, use Skype, MSN and ICQ
* Prevent online hacker cyber attacks
* Secure yourself from identity theft
* Safe online banking
* Prevent your passwords / logins to sites being hijacked
* Hide your real location
* Your ISP can't see or log any of the websites your visit or the things that you do

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Interview with a hacker and why use a VPN

There are many videos around about young hackers and this video shows you why it's important to be using VPN technology while surfing the internet at home, on an open wifi or in hotels.

This video is a clip from an interview i found on youtube

Free VPN

After doing a lot of research on VPN providers the one that i found to be the most affordable was proXPN as they are currently offering a free beta.

Their VPN is secure, free and fast.
I also found they have some cool videos on YouTube

They also offer an easy install, not like many other VPN providers where it gets very complicated to install and set up, proXPN's solution is simple, fast and effective.

It's a dream to install and use, although it's not perfectly polished and i do hope to see they will be providing slightly better software that is more please to the eye.

Top and bottom of it is that, it works.

More VPN videos from proXPN

SolidVPN.com

SolidVPN is a paid for service that offer OpenVPN and PPTP vpn, this is ideal for traveling and you can use it on your VPN on your Iphone too.

They have good customer services and easy set up of the product giving you secure online surfing.

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