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With small and fast Wi-Fi device usage on the rise. More business travelers are quickly forgeting the vunerability they have to serious security threats while in the public. The following article by Tanya Mohn offers some insight of what some of the leading security companies have to say.

With small and fast laptops, powerful smartphones, tablets and readily available Wi-Fi, working on the road — on planes, in airports and hotel rooms — has never been easier. But security experts say these conveniences also make the offices away from home more vulnerable to serious security threats.

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Bryndon Bay, a Missouri businessman, uses his iPad or iPhone instead of a laptop when he travels.

“It’s a huge, huge issue for companies and employees and growing more each day,” said Bruce McIndoe, president of iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, a travel risk management company. “It’s a ripe environment for hackers and criminals.”

A report released last week by the Symantec Corporation, a security software provider, and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, found that data breaches showed no sign of leveling off and were increasingly costly.

“As business travelers, we’re on the road so much, we psychologically forget that we’re in public,” said Ben Knieff, head of product marketing for fraud at NICE Actimize, a company that focuses on financial crimes in the financial services industry. Mr. Knieff recalled how he was recently boarding a plane and overheard an executive speaking loudly on a cellphone as he booked a hotel, revealing all of his credit card information, including the security code.

Laptops and mobile devices have numerous vulnerabilities, starting with loss and theft. McAfee, a security technology company, also noted, in a report last month, a 46 percent increase in the amount of malware created for mobile devices from 2009 to 2010. To limit exposure of particularly sensitive information, some companies switch mobile devices when employees travel, Mr. McIndoe said. “Older versions could be more vulnerable,” he said, as criminals have had time to learn how to hack them. And criminal access to mobile networks may be easier in certain foreign countries, because of lax security and corruption.

Michael Malin, executive vice president of Mandiant, an information security company, suggested hiding mobile devices when they are unattended. “We’ve all seen maids leave hotel room doors open with service carts,” he said. Someone could easily enter the room and “infect a computer or extract sensitive data,” he said.

“We’re seeing the use of social networks to gather publicly available information on targets,” he added. Posting photographs and travel plans can jeopardize personal safety and sensitive business negotiations, experts said.

Publicly shared computers at hotels and Internet cafes “are probably the riskiest,” Mr. Knieff said. “Anyone can walk in and sit down,” he said.

Even printing boarding passes can be dangerous. “Don’t leave them in public trash cans either. Anytime you leave data about yourself in a public place, it creates opportunities,” Mr. Knieff said.

Debit card data skimming has also been rising sharply, particularly in Europe and parts of Asia, Mr. Knieff said. He recommended that travelers report their plans to their banks. When using A.T.M.’s, travelers should look for signs of tampering, and use machines only at banks, preferably in protected areas.

“I travel to Southeast Asia frequently, and you hear about how it is a hotbed for credit card fraud,” said Bryndon Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications, a music publishing company, in Pacific, Mo., who relies on his iPad and iPhone on the road. Both are locked and protected with secure passwords. “I never go to places where I have to enter frequent-flier numbers, credit card information, or any personal data,” he said, “and I always clear off history after I finish because I don’t trust who may go on after me.”

“I just feel I use common sense and it works for me,” Mr. Bay said.

Robert Hamilton, senior product marketing manager for Symantec, recommended avoiding free public Wi-Fi. “Some look like legitimate hot spots, but they are set up by criminals,” frequently at airport terminals. If using a wireless connection, he suggested entering it through a smartphone connection, which is much harder to hack. And at hotels, obtain an access key before using the wireless connection, he said, to ensure it is not “sponsored by the person in the room next door.”

Betsy Page Sigman, a professor of operations and information management at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, said travelers attending conventions should also be aware of the risks. “You want to be overly cautious, especially if you are around a lot of competitors,” she said.

Bob Austin, president of KoreLogic, an information security consultancy, said, “If I had a single piece of advice for a business traveler’s peace of mind, it is whole disk encryption,” he said. Used with a robust pass phrase, similar to a password, “everything on the hard drive is protected from disclosure.” Many organizations also require their employees to use virtual private networks, which lower the risk of interception when accessing public wireless sites. The V.P.N. sends data through an encrypted tunnel.

Tracy Armer, systems manager for the Madison Park Group, a stationery and gift company in Seattle, said sales staff members used both whole disk encryption and V.P.N.’s when traveling, but he discouraged taking laptops unless critical. “You could be on a business trip, innocently looking up a good place to eat on the Internet, but there is a financial folder open on the desktop,” he said. “Someone could potentially browse the contents of your laptop.”

He suggested reading company material on paper while traveling.

Unfortunately, he added, “even with strong precautions, nothing is ever 100 percent secure.”

 

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The Jets were in an Empire State of Mind Sunday night after toppling the New England Patriots.

As the team’s charter flight descended toward Newark Airport, the captain called an audible and asked the tower for permission to veer closer to the Empire State Building, which was lit up in the team’s colors.

“Well I’ve had an unusual request,” the captain said. “If it’s green and white, these guys actually want to get as close as we could to see it.”

Like an airborne offensive line, Newark’s air-traffic controllers gladly cleared a path for the plane.

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“You guys are awesome,” the captain said. “And I will tell you later who said that.”

According to team sources, he was relaying a message from boisterous head coach Rex Ryan.

Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum said it was a fitting end to a perfect night. “For the Empire State Building to be lit green and white was already special,” he said. “Then for everyone involved to allow us to have a view on our way back was a great ending for our trip and something that the team will always remember.”

The route change that brought the Boeing 767 within clear view of the building required special permission to stray into La Guardia’s airspace, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said, but “no other flights were affected.”

The tower later alerted the jet as it neared the city’s tallest building.

“Taking you down the west side of the building down the Hudson,” the controller said. “Empire State Building should be at 11 o’clock.”

“It’s beautiful,” the flight captain said. “Yeah, we’ve got 200 people looking at it. A beautiful night for it, too. Really appreciate it, guys.”

Controllers then directed Continental charter flight 1915 toward Newark, where the plane landed at 10:53 p.m.

“Glad to do it,” the tower said.

Moments later, the tower said, “Clear to land for the champion New York Jets.”

Asked if they enjoyed the fly-by, the captain said, “We did, and the team did, too. It was great. I know the coach liked it.”

Such a fly-by request is not uncommon, but in this instance was particularly special for the controllers.

“It’s kind of cool,” said Ray Adams, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association at Newark. “It wasn’t a typical flight path, but it does happen,” he said.

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A new Gatwick Airport lounge is due to open before the 2011 summer season begins.

Posted by Liz Seddon on the 14/01/2011 15:21:01

Ipad makes it in the cockpit.

The iPad finally makes it to the cockpit of private aviation. Well the truth is that many pilots unofficially were already using the ipad for the many conveniences it provided. Its ability to allow pilots to use software in-flight made it more intuitive than the old method of paper charts, not to mention its ability to always be up to date with the latest info. A pilot could use radar software to avoid complications to a flight such as bad weather or have all the world maps at the touch of his finger tips. But as we all know, the Big G moves slow when it comes to adapting change and the benefits of technology. Even though the iPad has only been approved as a secondary tool for pilots to use, it is at least a step in the right direction. Many pilots already see other benefits that the iPad provides in just the time savings from the usual paper trail. I guess you can say this is one way of being greener.  With technology always developing to newer devices,  and the upcoming excitement of Motorola’s latest tablet Xoom, let’s hope the adaptation of technology in private aviation will be accepted more smoothly by our government.

Gun passed TSA screening

Is anyone actually shocked by this? Last month a small child knocked a loaded magazine clip from the plane’s seat pocket while playing around during a Southwest Airline flight. Now, a man accidently brought his loaded .40 caliber gun onto an airplane in his carryon bag. Upon realizing during midflight that he forgot to check the gun he notified officials when the plane landed. Fortunately none of these incidents caused any harm but this does show how flawed the security measures are. I have always accepted the fact that in order for safety we have to subject ourselves to some inconveniences, but if the idea of safety is only a myth then how safe am I really. Ignorance may be bliss, but not when I’m flying.

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