BAD GUYS IN THE BUSINESS CENTER
Hotel and library computers are easy to compromise. In short, they’re generally not safe from hackers wanting to steal your information or your identity. We used a hotel’s “business center” computer a while back at L’Auberge in Del Mar, Cal., a three-star hotel, no less, and within a couple of days started getting scurrilous ads in our email. At the “Conrad” inIndianapolis, one of the Hilton upscale hotels, we noticed the computers in the business center had not been upgraded in more than four years, and did not seem at all well protected. Joy installed the latest Internet Explorer. She shouldn’t have been able to do that. Almost no computer that can be accessed by the public is safe from […]
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