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Actually very interesting, the hotel wifi scam was and is common and was the chip venerability was known but never announced till a patch was found.
Feels like they have stolen from you once so they keep trying.
Does bit coin mining open you to more vulnerability? Do SETI still use computers screensavers to work on data as a sort of cloud computing and does that open vulnerability?
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Actually very interesting, the hotel wifi scam was and is common and was the chip venerability was known but never announced till a patch was found.
Sounds like we are talking about different things.
Does bit coin mining open you to more vulnerability?
No idea, not my area really. Perhaps if hackers become aware that you might be holding large quantities.
Stonehedge
CSB warning.
I was speaking at a Blockchain event in a hotel in London in 2015 and had a quantity of cryptocurrency stolen shortly afterwards. After an exhaustive investigation, using a third party security company, it turned out that my macbook had a known Intel vulnerability exploited via the hotel wifi AP and some code was injected into the firmware. This code was used to listen for keystrokes and ultimately used for lifting a private key.
Apart from that, which happened on the road, I receive maybe three attempts a month to get me to click on a malicious link targeted specifically to me as a result of what I do for a living. My security precautions tend to spot two or three attempted remote attacks on my network each month too.