Drive-by Hacking Is For Real

Having a unencrypted wireless lan is asking for trouble looks like hackers have found a new challange.

BBC News Online has been shown just how lax security is on wireless networks used in London's financial centre.

On one short trip, two-thirds of the networks we discovered using a laptop and free software tools were found to be wide open.

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Many people think of hacking as a sedentary pursuit, carried out in bedrooms and back rooms all over the world.

Often it is, but the growing popularity of wireless networks is making some curious folk leave their bedrooms and venture out into the fresh air.
Armed with a laptop, a wireless network adapter card, as well as some widely available software tools, you can travel the streets logging the location of these networks and picking up information that could let you attack them.

BBC News Online was shown just how easy it was by two ethical hackers who prefer to be known as Codex and Kuji. We drove with the pair around London's financial district.

As we drove, we watched the screen of a notebook computer sitting on Codex's lap. The machine was fitted with a wireless network card and a program that noted important information about any wifi nets we stumbled across.

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The article it self i much longer and is very interesting to read about how the hackers go to work and it all works.

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Source: BBC News

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