Software updates can be hijacked - if you use public WiFi

Researchers from Radware - a fellow security company - were busy at the Defcon security event in Las Vegas this weekend, showing an application that stages a classic man-in-the-middle attack on computers when looking for updates across a public WiFi network. The Ippon (meaning “game over” in Judo) application reportedly looks for update requests for around 100 popular applications and then responds with a malware-loaded “update”. Clever stuff, except that if you do anyt... [More]