The pineapple is one of the most contentious fruits around. It’s inclusion on pizza is either a culinary delight or a disgrace depending on your point of view. Now though there is another type of pineapple that may be able to compromise your security. The Wi-Fi Pineapple is a device that more closely resembles a Wi-Fi Access Point than its namesake. The pocket-sized device was created for penetration testing, but can be re-purposed to perform malicious man-in-the-middle attacks. If a hacker unleashes the Wi-Fi Pineapple in a public place, even after taking steps to secure yourself, you could still be...
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