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03-05-2017, 11:01 PM
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The New Paper (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNH5MYlSKqd8NSZTS1KcJONJzZ4EHQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=_6a8WOjOEoaXhAGc0rPoBQ&url=http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/think-your-phone-safe-public-wi-fi-think-again)
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Think your phone is safe on public Wi-Fi? Think again (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNH5MYlSKqd8NSZTS1KcJONJzZ4EHQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=_6a8WOjOEoaXhAGc0rPoBQ&url=http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/think-your-phone-safe-public-wi-fi-think-again)
The New Paper
That was all the time it took for a hacker to start gathering data from my mobile phone after I connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. He revealed to me which mobile banking app and e-mail services I used as well as my phone's operating system version.





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