The scenario: you’re flying to an Educause conference and working on your session presentation, only you need to grab just one more piece of data from your Cornell Box account. So you hop onto the airline’s free WIFI service and find what you need. You’re on a plane, 40,000 feet in the air – what could go wrong?

You could be on the plane with someone who has created an evil twin of the airplane’s wifi.

Sound far-fetched? It’s not. In June the Australian Federal Police arrested someone who did exactly that: they set up a free mimic of the airline’s WIFI service, led victims to a fake web page, and stole their login credentials.

It takes more time to fix a compromised NetID than to prevent one!

Protect Your Cornell NetID on Campus, and in the Troposphere

Protect your password by never having to use it with the Secure Connect passkey service. Passkeys combine biometrics on your computer with complicated cryptography so you can securely log in to any CUWebLogin site with a touch or a smile. An added bonus – it’s even more secure than Duo!