http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/1245/all xx http://www.itworld.com/security/55727/militants-send-terror-messages-india-wardriving Citizens need to be vigilant and patch poorly secured wireless networks, the Indian police said Monday after announcing the arrest of technology-savvy members of a militant group that exploited insecure wireless networks to send messages. http://www.itworld.com/security/55727/militants-send-terror-messages-india-wardriving#comments Mobile & wireless Security News physical security wardriving wifi Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:59:40 -0400 ITworld staff 55727 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/news/54159/covert-operation-floats-network-sniffing-balloon Rick Hill won't say where he launched his "wardriving" balloon on Friday, but he will tell you that it got a pretty good look at about 370 wireless networks, while scanning up and down the Las Vegas Strip. http://www.itworld.com/news/54159/covert-operation-floats-network-sniffing-balloon#comments Security News Defcon wardriving wi-fi Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:56:02 -0400 ITworld staff 54159 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54118/forty-one-million-stolen-credit-cards-just-beginning Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with stealing 41 million credit cards, obtained by wardriving. The criminals drove around and scanned wireless networks for vulnerabilities, then installed sniffers that stole credit card information. Was this kind of attack inevitable? I believe it was. And we have more coming. http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54118/forty-one-million-stolen-credit-cards-just-beginning#comments Security Tech & society Research epidemic pharming phishing scam wardriving Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:55:38 -0400 Markus Jakobsson 54118 at http://www.itworld.com