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Wi-Fi "wartrappers" nab drive-by hackers

posted onOctober 15, 2002
by hitbsecnews

Source: ZDNET

reaper: this is the lamest attempt to try to fool a true WI FI hacker so don't waste your money or time buying this unit they need to go back to there other security scams. so just fix your access point and don't waste your money. So I say don't mark Pooh. I say mark fool. just my thoughts.....

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A "honeypot" trap consisting of a Wi-Fi-equipped laptop is the latest weapon against drive-by hackers. Set up at the London headquarters of consultants KPMG, the laptop looks to the outside world like a simple wireless access point, but contains monitoring software designed to determine the level of illicit activity.
"We are trying to measure the number of wardrivers, and the level of attack they are attempting," said Michael van Strien of KPMG, revealing the device at the RSA security conference in Paris. He plans to publish some results in the next month or two, which will give an idea of the level of the much discussed threat of "wardriving", where hackers outside an office gain access to unsecured wireless access points. "We're looking at the number of hits and how many try to get network addresses," said van Strien.

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