A DIY UAV That Hacks Wi-Fi Networks, Cracks Passwords, and Poses as a Cell Phone Tower | Popular Science

A DIY UAV That Hacks Wi-Fi Networks, Cracks Passwords, and Poses as a Cell Phone Tower | Popular Science:
 they’ll be showing off a functioning homemade spy drone that can sniff out Wi-Fi networks, autonomously crack passwords, and even eavesdrop on your cell phone calls by posing as a cell tower... the duo has taught their WASP a new way to surreptitiously gather intel from the ground: pose as a GSM cell phone tower to trick phones into connecting through WASP rather than their carriers... Tassey and Perkins say they built WASP so show just how easy it is, and just how vulnerable you are. “We wanted to bring to light how far the consumer industry has progressed, to the point where public has access to technologies that put companies, and even governments at risk from this new threat vector that they’re not aware of,” Perkins told Forbes.
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Hacked PCs falsify billions of ad clicks - FT.com

Hacked PCs falsify billions of ad clicks - FT.com:
Even the wild west analogy barely steps up to the scale and potential financial and economic impact of intrusions on and attacks into the new internet infrastructure where rules and laws are made in real-time by gangsters, warriors, terrorists, entrepreneurs, and state actors, to exploit and capitalize and profit from gaming the system.  Attacks in the future will not be conventional bombs, and suicide vests, but rater processes perturbing  transactions resulting in  chaos in financial systens as confidence evaporates.

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