Researchers Say Wi-Fi Outbreak Possible

Indiana University IT researchers have announced that a seriously damaging WiFi attack is possible if piggybacked across unsecured access points in a large city. Such an attack could take over 20,000 wireless routers within a two-week period.

The researchers theorize that the attack would work by guessing administrative passwords and then instructing the wireless routers to install worm-like firmware causing the infected router to attack other devices in its range.

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