ONE in nearly five Singapore households is not securing its wireless Internet connections. The result: users at home are setting themselves up to become the fall guys for hackers, scammers and online pirates, warn IT security experts.
The new figures come as a growing number of crooks, armed with just a portable computer, use unsecured networks to make bomb threats, download pirated material and run online scams.
Their activities can leave unwitting netizens facing a lawsuit and even a police probe, said Mr Julian Ho, chief operating officer of Internet security firm ThinkSecure.
Read Chua Hian Hou's full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
