Psst! Someone is spying on you
When we hear the word “spy,” we usually think of Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger spies. But in the digital age when we say someone is “spying” on you, we’re talking about online. And someone is almost certainly spying on you.
What kind of online spies are there?
There are four main categories of online spies: The government, cybercriminals, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and advertising networks.
Government
We know, via leaked documents, that the National Security Administration (NSA) collects your private data, including email, messages, any traffic passing through the undersea fiber optic cables, and some cellphone locations outside the United States. This is all perfectly legal, by the way.
And, of course, the U.S. government isn’t the only government that spies on its citizens. China is perhaps the most famous — and the most overt — when it comes to government moderation of citizen’s online activity, but governments on every continent employ methods for spying on their people.
Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals utilize a range of techniques to spy on people and collect their information. One is insecure Wi-Fi connections, usually in the form of public Wi-Fi. Because these networks are accessible to anyone, cybercriminals can set up a variety of attacks to spy on you and steal your information.
With a man-in-the-middle attack, criminals intercept the data you send between your device and the ISP. With Wi-Fi-sniffing, they grab a bunch of data and then sift through it to pick out the things they want. And, sometimes, they plant malware on the Wi-Fi connection, w ..
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