The US Secret Service has advised the hospitality industry to inspect computers made available to guests in hotel business centres.
Warning that crooks have been compromising hotel business centre PCs with keystroke-logging malware, in a bid to steal personal and financial data from guests, the non-public advisory warned that a task force in Texas recently arrested suspects who have compromised computers within several major hotel business centers in the Dallas/Fort Worth areas.
According to Brian Krebs, the advisory lists several basic recommendations for hotels to help secure public computers, such as limiting guest accounts to non-administrator accounts that do not have the ability to install or uninstall programs.