Computer hacking outside movies is hard, it involves slow comprehensive work, deep reconnaissance about targets, repetitive and boring tasks, until the little boy gets inside the cage. It is usually misinterpreted by Hollywood, thus came the term `Hollywood Hacking`
Due to the solemnity of the recently discovered security loopholes (stated subsequently), 2014 is nominated to be the year of credential theft, online payment fraud and privacy violation.
In case you are familiar with Man in the middle attacks I don't expect you doing any of those stuff under untrusted WiFi (same for wired ones), else you should think twice before executing any activity under public access points.
Scared? Well you should be !
Gauss White, a malware hitting targeting the Lebanese Banking Sector; A Nation-state cyber-espionage Trojan, cousin of Flame and Stuxnet. Everything you need to know from a political perspective.