Engineer fined for blogging exactly how to hack a hotel's Wi-Fi
It's one thing to report website vulnerabilities before they're used maliciously. It's another to blog about a vulnerability online.
Singapore authorities fined Zheng Dutao, an engineer at Chinese internet giant Tencent, S$5,000 (about $3,660) this week after discovering he hacked into a hotel's Wi-Fi system and shared sensitive information on his blog, ZDNet reported Tuesday.
Zheng was staying at the hotel in Singapore while attending the Hack in the Box security conference at the end of August. After hacking the hotel's Wi-Fi, he did not report the security vulnerability. Instead he shared details of how he hacked its Wi-Fi network in a post on his blog. The sensitive information, including hotel passwords and other details, could still be exploited by other hackers.
