Taking over a laptop through a WiFi access
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The next time you see a geek sit on a public bench, this might your hacker, the one who’s infiltrating your laptop. It’s just a teasing demonstration for the upcoming Black Hat 2006 in August, but two researchers managed to seize control of a laptop computer by simply manipulating buggy code in the system’s wireless device driver.
The main threat comes the fact that “you don’t have to necessarily be connected for these device driver flaws to come into play,” Ellch said to Info World. “Just because your wireless card is on and looking for a network could be enough.”
And they also examined other networking technologies including Bluetooth, Ev-Do (EVolution-Data Only), and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access). The two last acronyms are for cellphones 3G-enabled.
The hacker researchers used an open-source 802.11 hacking tool called LORCON (Lots of Radion Connectivity) to throw an extremely large number of wireless packets at different wireless cards. You can fool around, but don’t expect to get more information from them. They’ll keep their mouth shut until the Black Hat presentation.
Jun 22, 2006 | By Nuno
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