Seen this sort of crazy stuff before, not to this level though. I was concerned in Edinburgh last year as the bloke sat next to me was able to log into the wireless with the standard router password of admin/password (netgear). He did toy with the idea of routing all traffic through one of his servers, he thought better of that though as that might have made him a little unpopular.
I dont do certain things of a sensitive nature on wirless, as I dont have my own ssh tunnel set up yet. I just dont trust open networks.
Also fun grabbing people clipboard with a bit of JS on a website :-), lots of unusual stuff.
just read a big article in macworld that basically said the same thing, except, of course, it was targeted at mac users, who usually think they are exempt from this type of thing... no longer, apparently.
Personally, I have the utmost respect for how powerful hackers are. That said, I also think they are all common thieves, with no honor, and they are all complete and utter losers, no exceptions...
Every year more regular people attend DEFcon. They even made Black Hat to accommodate the masses. And every year, more people are shocked at what the more capable among us can do. of course, the DEFcon people like to brag about stuff like getting kicked out of hotels, etc.
A few days ago I thought this was interesting not because DEFcon guys showed wi-fi can be used to take over a notebook remotely, but because the hacker tied it to the Mac because he didn't like the smugness of the Apple commercials. Just a bad attitude, and a whole PR mess is created for Apple (the hack was a general wi-fi card hack, and had nothing to do with the Mac).
yep, read that too. There ARE mac specific hacks though and 4 known OSX viruses (compared to 80k on windows) athough they were more 'proof of concept' than 'in the wild' (and they were patched) but still...
Seen this sort of crazy
Seen this sort of crazy stuff before, not to this level though. I was concerned in Edinburgh last year as the bloke sat next to me was able to log into the wireless with the standard router password of admin/password (netgear). He did toy with the idea of routing all traffic through one of his servers, he thought better of that though as that might have made him a little unpopular.
I dont do certain things of a sensitive nature on wirless, as I dont have my own ssh tunnel set up yet. I just dont trust open networks.
Also fun grabbing people clipboard with a bit of JS on a website :-), lots of unusual stuff.
just read a big article in
just read a big article in macworld that basically said the same thing, except, of course, it was targeted at mac users, who usually think they are exempt from this type of thing... no longer, apparently.
Personally, I have the utmost respect for how powerful hackers are. That said, I also think they are all common thieves, with no honor, and they are all complete and utter losers, no exceptions...
every year
Every year more regular people attend DEFcon. They even made Black Hat to accommodate the masses. And every year, more people are shocked at what the more capable among us can do. of course, the DEFcon people like to brag about stuff like getting kicked out of hotels, etc.
A few days ago I thought this was interesting not because DEFcon guys showed wi-fi can be used to take over a notebook remotely, but because the hacker tied it to the Mac because he didn't like the smugness of the Apple commercials. Just a bad attitude, and a whole PR mess is created for Apple (the hack was a general wi-fi card hack, and had nothing to do with the Mac).
yep, read that too. There
yep, read that too. There ARE mac specific hacks though and 4 known OSX viruses (compared to 80k on windows) athough they were more 'proof of concept' than 'in the wild' (and they were patched) but still...