Attention all travellers using Kinko's computer rentals while on the road - read this article. It contains important information about protecting your personal/financial/password information while using these rental computers. The bottom line is - don't use rental computers to access critical financial or personal information.
Attention all travellers using Kinko's computer rentals while on the road - read this article. It contains important information about protecting your personal/financial/password information while using these rental computers. The bottom line is - don't use rental computers to access critical financial or personal information. At several Kinko's in the New York City area, a person installed software that records information gathered from people using the computer rentals. A follow up question now is - should all Kinko's and cyber cafes be legally responsible for protecting us from this possibility?
July 27, 2003
Spy puts kink in public Web terminals
By Anick Jesdanun
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - For more than a year, unbeknown to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords.
Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko's stores, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, using them to access and even open bank accounts online.
Posted by travelsafetyblog at July 29, 2003 02:30 PM