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Business travellers targeted in latest phishing
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 13:37 GMT

Business users who frequent airport and other wireless hot spots are being warned of a new, more sophisticated variant of the "Evil Twin" phishing scam that appeared in January.

AirDefense has warned fraudulent websites that appear to be log-in sites for legitimate Wi-Fi hot spot vendors. When you log-in and access the phony sites - providing personally ID information - your laptop is hit with as many 45 viruses.

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