War Driving | Wireless Hackers

Wireless Network Attackers War DrivingDouglas Chick

Wireless hacking, or "Wardriving" is when someone from outside your home accesses your wireless network. In most case it is because the victim doesn't have security enabled on their wireless access point. The dangers of having a non-secure wireless access-point are: Spammers can send junk mail from your home, hackers and criminals can hack remote locations that are tracked back to you, your confidential information is exposed to anyone that parks outside your home with a laptop. You may also suffer some liability because attacks were launched from your home by the bad guys. Here is a video of Joe and I as we drove around the local new station, showed them hundreds of open wireless networks in minutes. [Wireless