World’s first on-device mobile intrusion prevention system

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With RSA and Mobile World Congress going on, when you go to conference do you use Wi-Fi? Whether it is a conference, or simply taking advantage of a coffee shop or airport hot spot, if you leave your phone enabled to connect wirelessly, then it is too easy for a hacker to hijack your connection with a WiFi Pineapple, Firesheep, or plant another “hot spot” router to which you automatically connect. Hello man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack! At Black Hat, I watched hundreds of “security-minded” people get their connections hijacked by Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, otherwise known as @ihackbanme.

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Story added 27. February 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.