SINGAPORE, March 11 — Last week, a Russian media outlet leaked an audio recording of a confidential conversation between a group of senior German military officials, one of whom...
On March 1, Russia's state-run RT channel published a 38-minute-long audio recording in which German Air Force chief Ingo Gerhartz discussed highly sensitive military issues with three other high-ranking officials.
Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TODAY last Friday said that even though this incident was a targeted attack on the German military and did not negatively affect Singapore's national security, they warned of the need for everyone to be vigilant and not to take Singapore's cybersecurity measures for granted.
RT identified the official as Brigadier General Frank Grafe, who was in Singapore for the Airshow that was held from February 20 to 25. “Whether a public Wi-Fi network was used or not is actually not relevant, because even if you had used a public network to connect to an application on your mobile phone or laptop, the communication would be encrypted on the platform itself,” he said.
A rogue Wi-Fi access point is an unauthorised wireless access point created without the consent of the original network administrator. How this works is that the rogue access point will masquerade as a legitimate access point with the same name and security settings, luring users to connect to it where hackers would then steal their data.
To ensure safety and privacy when connecting to a public Wi-Fi network, Reed said that users should first make sure that the software on all their devices should be updated to the latest version. Fazelialso suggested that users connect to a 4G or 5G mobile network on their devices instead of public access networks if possible, noting that they provide better signal, faster speed and a more secure connection than Wi-Fi.
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