Attackers tried mailboxes the european parliament to crack via a wi-fi hotspot

The public wi-fi hotspot of the European Parliament is the target of a man in the middleattack. As a result, some mailboxes ‘compromised’, though it is not clear whether in between also accounts of Europarlementari vnom rs sit.

From an e-mail from the ict helpdesk of the European Parliament, which is published on the website of the opensourcegebruikersgroep of the same Parliament, it appears that an unknown man in the middle attack on the public wifi network of the european parliament has carried out.

It was the attacker, the communication between the client and the network city. Probably, it was a simple attack, where the unencrypted traffic on the open network was ‘gesnifft’, although that is not from the e-mail. At public wifi hotspots is the interception of traffic easily.

Although it is going to the public wi-fi hotspot of the Parliament, as a result of the attack ‘individual mailboxes compromised’, according to the e-mail. It is not clear whether there e-mail accounts of Meps tussenzitten, but the ict department advises employees of S to as a precaution, the password of the account of their member of parliament to change.

Also as a precaution, the public wi-fi hotspot of the european parliament turned off; it is not clear whether the network is now back online. The ict-department, press and parliamentarians on the heart to the public wi-fi hotspot is not longer to use, but only the private network, for which certificates should be installed.