The African Cyber Gold Mine: your Western data

Going on a holiday is dangerous when it comes to security. You leave your well known environment and you leave towards an environment that is not secured as the way you expect it should be. Last week I have been in Africa and I have witnessed the African Cyber Gold Mine.

African Cyber Gold Mine

Face it - in Africa the technology has to make some big jumps until it comes to the "secure" level of Western countries but still the Western people travel to Africa and they make use of the Public Wifi hotspots, public computers in various internet cafe's. They have a lot of money and they love to keep a close watch on it.
Hackers know this - they are after your credentials in the African continent.

Don't hack the bank - hack the hotel

Why would an hacker try to hack an Western bank if it could simply attack an African hotel that has stored all your personal information in clear text? That is the African Cyber Gold Mine. It does not matter if you are the President or some guy that is just going on a holiday. We all come in the same database.

No statistics in Africa

If you start searching for cybercrime statistics in Africa you will get almost no information. But we do know that the most spam is being send from the same continent.

Have you been in Africa?

Have you ever been in Africa? Did you use public wifi? or did you take security measures?

Source:Cyberwarzone