I just read this on the net.
World Is Facing A Wave Of Cyber Crime - Yahoo!
""Criminals use these to harvest passwords and other sensitive data from smartphones or computers - often giving their Wi-Fi hotspots fake names familiar to punters at cafes and in airports.
Many smartphones are set up to automatically leap on to available Wi-Fi hotspots and start downloading emails.
Others will ask first. But who would turn down "free Wi-Fi"?
Mr Hart has set up his fake Wi-Fi hotspot in a car outside a cafe.
My phone picked it up and I chose to jump on his Wi-Fi link. In seconds, he was able to read my email passwords and decrypt my "secure" login details for Twitter.
He already knew my IP address, the unique address for my iPhone. So he was "spear phishing" me, aiming only to harvest my data.
"With the right equipment I could do this in a two or three mile radius... I conducted an attack against you and pretty much everything you were doing on your smart phone, I was able to essentially compromise all your passwords," Mr Hart explained.
Forty per cent of mobiles sold this year have been smartphones - and this has been a bumper year for malware developers who have focussed their attention on smartphones.
Those running Google's Android system have been especially targeted.
Bitdefender's Catalin Cosoi said: "We have investigated applications for Android devices and basically, based on our statistics, we've seen a 2,000% increase of malicious applications compared to the last year... Our prediction is that in the following six months, we will have a 6,000% increase in malicious applications."
"Once you have a smartphone, you probably can't go back to an older version of a phone now that you have access to a computer, social media, emails, pictures and so on. You sort of get addicted, so smartphones are becoming very important," Mr Cosoi added.""
This is not the whole read, see above link.
Will folk wake up???? It's happening (but it won't happen to me :rolleyes:)