Free Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or other public space is a welcome sign for millions of people everyday who want to get some work done, make a video call, or just catch up on a bit of online shopping.
However, as results of a new experiment today prove, public Wi-Fi is so unsecure it can even be hacked by a seven-year-old child – and in just over ten minutes.
The ethical hacking experiment was conducted as part of a new Wi-Fi safety public awareness campaign by VPN provider
www.hidemyass.com, which aims to to highlight just how effortlessly hackers can compromise any of the UK’s almost 270,000 public Wi-Fi spots.
