Errata demos WiFi hacker tools
Errata Security has created two tools called Hamster and Ferret that enable a WiFi hacker to sniff WiFi traffic and collect unencrypted cookies used across WiFi session. Errata officials demonstrated the programs hacking into Google's GMaili at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas last week.
Hamster and Ferret enable a WiFi hacker to interactively monitor traffic flowing to and from public WiFi hotspot users' notebook, PDAs and smartphones. By grabbing unencrypted cookies, hackers could use the programs to hi-jack or overlay a user's online session.
Security analysis outfit Tier-3 said WiFi sniffing was an "inevitable evolution" of hacking and could also be extended to other popular social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace.
