The U.S Secret Service has given out advice to those in the hospitality industry to inspect computers which they make available to guests in their hotel business centres. It has been stated that with keystroke-logging malware, crooks have been compromising PCs in an attempt to steal the financial and personal data from hotel guests
In response to this revelation, Toyin Adelakun, a VP at Sestus, has provided the following advice:
“For end-users, the key take-away is, and has long been, to treat business-centre PCs and networks as hostile. Presume that they are malware-ridden and bug-infested, and always sniffing for your passwords and other personally-identifiable information (PII). If you had to use them, accord them a respectful suspicion, and do not use them to log onto any service that needs your private passwords. That means any service, such as e-mail, social-media, internet-banking and online retail. Oh, and by the way, it’s not just hotel business centres — it’s ANY business centre, computer showroom, Internet café or airport lounge.”