arstechnica.com — New research from a team at Indiana University suggests that malware attacks specifically focused on wireless routers could do significant damage on a city-wide scale. There are tools to limit the damage such attacks could cause—but only if consumers use them.
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naugrimJan 3, 2008
The Earthlink/Philadelphia city wide WiFi project must be crapping their collective pants right about now.
cyber_akumaJan 3, 2008
I know, I only have it to deter somebody from just leeching off my connection, I am aware if somebody actually wanted to break in my WEP encryption would not do much, but what else can I do? The DS dosen't support WPA.
sponeilJan 3, 2008
Your post is complete nonsense. You don't think a virus can be programmed with several different attack vectors? You don't think a virus can contain multiple binaries pre-compiled for different platforms, and upload the appropriate one based on the type of attack that gets through? Not only is it possible, but it's been done before.I'm a developer, and I've reverse engineered a few pieces of malicious code. Don't even try to tell me it's not possible.
bzboy88Jan 13, 2008
Yah, the people that have any in depth knowledge of computers and know something besides how to turn a computer on and double click on internet explorer should not be surprised by this article. The common user on the other hand is up a river without a paddle. but i dont think it is right to say that a whole city could be affected by this maybe just most of the citizens but companies and isp's should be smart enough to not let there computers be affected... or you would hope they would, lol....