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UK politicos easily pwned on insecure Wi-Fi networks

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Re: No SSL/TLS?

What they did was inject a "please log in" popup

From the way the article and the video are portraying it, it would appear that only MEP Honeyball got a pop-up phishing message. Lord Strausburger had an unencrypted VOIP session packet-sniffed/recorded and the password capture method for MP Davis was not specifically stated, although HE said: "Alarmingly, the password would have been broken no matter how strong it was. Public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure: usernames and passwords are shown in plain text in the back of a Wi-Fi access point, making them simple for a hacker to steal" which implies heavily that he was not using an encrypted protocol for at least one his logins. Password reuse did the rest.

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