Yet another way for a person to steal your personal information: and with the economy being what it is-this is very tempting.
It is amazing how many people do not have a secured wireless network-I was in a place last weekend with my computer and picked up an unsecured WIFI network. If you know what you are doing-you can literally see everything on that other persons computer.
I am linking you to a really good video at the end of this post that shows just how easy War Driving is.
Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi Wireless Networds by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.
Software for wardriving are freely available on the Internet notably NetStumbler for Windows, Kismet or SWScanner for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Solaris, and KisMac for Macintosh.
There are also homebrew wardriving applications for handheld game consoles that support Wi-fi, such as sniff_jazzbox/wardive for the Nintendo DS, Road Dog for the Sony PSP and Stumbler for the iPhone. There also exists a mode within Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for the Sony PSP (wherein the player is able to find new comrades by searching for wireless access points) which can be used to wardrive. Treasure World for the DS is a commercial game in which gameplay wholly revolves around wardriving.
Wardriving was derived from the term wardialing from the 1983 film WarGames, which involved searching for computer systems to connect to, using software that dialed numbers sequentially to see which ones were connected to a fax machine or computer.
Warkitting is a combination of wardriving and rootkitting. In a warkitting attack, a hacker replaces the firmware of an attacked router. This allows him to control all traffic for the victim, and could even permit him to disable SSL by replacing HTML content as it is being downloaded
Warkitting was identified by Tsow, Jakobsson, Yang, and Wetzel in 2006. Their discovery indicated that 10% of the wireless routers were susceptible to WAPjacking (malicious configuring the firmware settings, but making no modification on the firmware itself) and 4.4% of wireless router were vulnerable to WAPkitting (subverting the router firmware). Their analysis showed that the volume of credential theft possible through Warkitting exceeded the estimates of credential theft due to phishing.
Here is the video from the H-Commerce website:
IN OTHER NEWS: I will be going down to Payne Drive to see if the powers that be in this town REPLACE THE MISSING STREET SIGN!!
Also: I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COP-IT IS MY ALTER EGO-APPARENTLY MY EYESIGHT IS STILL REAL GOOD-I KEEP WONDERING WHY I SEE THESE THINGS HAPPENING AND OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT DOESN’T??
OR DO THEY??
On Tuesday night around 6:30 p.m. I was running an errand and drove past the Cheshire Town Hall when lo and behold-I discovered Cheshire had yet another skate board park!!
Yep-that’s right-you thought we just had the one at Bartlem Park??
WRONG!!
Apparently a group of kids are getting a big kick out of skateboarding down the steps and down the railing in front of the Town Hall!!
Look-I LOVE KIDS-I LOVE THE WAY THEY ARE JUST SO CAREFREE AND NOTHING SCARES THEM-ESPECIALLY BOYS!!
But, let’s face it-these Children of the Corn here eventually are going to fall and split their face open-ON TOWN PROPERTY-or accidentally skate into oncoming traffic on Rt. 10 or Wallingford Road and God forbid be hit by a vehicle.
I had to drive to the other end of town later that same evening around 8 p.m. and I got out of my car and took a look at the black metal railing that is on the steps in front of the Town Hall-it looks REALLY WORN!!
So, I am sure-this has been going on for quite some time-YET THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE NOTICING-AREN’T!!
WHAT ARE THEY NOTICING??
You know damn well the SECOND one of these kids gets hurt-the helicopter parents will in front of the Town Council or worse yet-sending a letter to the Town Attorney from their attorney-taking legal action.
We have a skateboard park-PLEASE USE IT!!
A little more law enforcement in that area is needed-good place for the Bike Patrol!!
