Wifi-Users, Beware of Pussy on your Lawn!

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''Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. He spent three hours exploring nearby backyards. He killed a mouse, whose carcass he thoughtfully brought home to his octogenarian owner, Nancy. And while he was out, Coco mapped dozens of his neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks, identifying four routers that used an old, easily-broken form of encryption and another four that were left entirely unprotected.

Unbeknownst to Coco, he’d been fitted with a collar created by Nancy’s granddaughter’s husband, security researcher Gene Bransfield. And Bransfield had built into that collar a Spark Core chip loaded with his custom-coded firmware, a Wi-Fi card, a tiny GPS module and a battery—everything necessary to map all the networks in the neighborhood that would be vulnerable to any intruder or Wi-Fi mooch with, at most, some simple crypto-cracking tools.

In the 1980s, hackers used a technique called “wardialing,” cycling through numbers with their modems to find unprotected computers far across the internet. The advent of Wi-Fi brought “wardriving,” putting an antenna in a car and cruising a city to suss out weak and unprotected Wi-Fi networks. This weekend at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Bransfield will debut the next logical step: The “WarKitteh” collar, a device he built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice.''

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This is fucking amazing xD. So simple yet so clever GG WP defcon.

I might actually see the talk today if my little brother wants to.

That's a genius idea! Simple but wow... :tongue:

I'm jelly @Adorapuff

(08-10-2014, 07:02 PM)Aurora Wrote:

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That's a genius idea! Simple but wow... :tongue:

I'm jelly @Adorapuff

I actually missed the talk but I taught my little brother how to use wireshark

Dang, I accidentally posted this article a second time, after seeing it on Reddit. It's a shame @Adorapuff missed the talk.

(08-11-2014, 05:24 AM)Oni Wrote:

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Dang, I accidentally posted this article a second time, after seeing it on Reddit. It's a shame @Adorapuff missed the talk.

I'll watch it on youtube once it gets posted along with a few other talks I wanted to see but missed.

That's some hacker cat, where can I buy it?

Yep I saw this at DefCon! Amazing what you can do with a bit of knowledge and a lot of creativity! And I'm just sitting here trying to figure out my Java homework...

(10-02-2014, 09:49 PM)KarnivalAssassin Wrote:

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Yep I saw this at DefCon! Amazing what you can do with a bit of knowledge and a lot of creativity! And I'm just sitting here trying to figure out my Java homework...

Ha! You have to take Java!

Are you a Computer Science major?