Broadband Security Warning Issued by Scottish Cops
In one of the latest developments, a top Scottish police officer has urged the broadband internet subscribers in the country to make sure that their broadband connections were completely secure.
According to the claims of Keith McDevitt, a detective inspector at the Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency of Scotland, if the wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) networks in the United Kingdom were left without adequate protection, they would be sitting ducks for those people that aspire to make use of these.
McDevitt was found to be explaining to the newspaper Daily Record that it meant increasingly possible embroilment of people in problems related to activities of fraudulence, as such wireless broadband connections could be used by criminals to purchase items online using a filched credit card or download explicit content from the internet.
The Scottish detective inspector added that at least for a short span of time innocent people were likely to be criminal investigation suspects, as the police might arrive at their home armed with a warrant to examine, search and seize their personal computers; all for one main reason that the people failed in taking some simple measures to secure their Wi-Fi connection.
Recently, TalkTalk, one of the most popular internet service providers operating in the UK that specializes in cheap business broadband packages, had disclosed that around 7 million households in the country were vulnerable to the sort of WiFi wireless broadband hijacking.
