[Ir-l] Welcome to the era of drive-by hacking

[Paul Mobbs]

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Welcome to the era of drive-by hacking

Tuesday, 6 November, 2001, 13:14 GMT
By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward 

The slower the traffic the easier to spot wireless networks


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. 

Any maliciously minded hacker could easily join these networks and piggy back 
on their fast net links, steal documents or subvert other machines on the 
systems to do their bidding. 

None of the wireless networks we found used anything but their flawed, 
in-built security systems to protect against hack attacks. 


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