Okay Apple users, wanna comment on this one? It appears that the IPad has been hacked and 114,000 users e-mail and possibly other personal information has been exposed. Nice! Although it does appear that AT&T was also at fault. Apparently the hackers obtained the information from AT&T's website to harvest the data on the IPad users. Huge screw-up and doesn't do much for confidence in either the IPAD, or the AT&T network.

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Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

Network World has posted an article yesterday on how one of the easiest ways that hackers can steal your data on an unsecure public wireless hotspot.

If you are accessing a hotspot and you do not have a proxy of some sort setup, you are putting yourself at an enormous risk through a procedure known as poisoning your web browser. Its a very common way for hackers to intercept traffic. If you aren't sure that you are accessing the right network, you won't know if your computer has been compromised.

Be very careful and make absolutely sure that you are accessing the wireless access point that you should be. Hackers can easily spoof a public hotspot and then you are open to their tools of destruction.

There are VPN servers that you can install that will give you security by routing your traffic through a safe DNS server ...

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