The cat turned HACKER: Security expert uses Coco the pet to break in to neighbouring home Wi-Fi networks
10 years, 7 months ago

The cat turned HACKER: Security expert uses Coco the pet to break in to neighbouring home Wi-Fi networks

Daily Mail  

Armed with a small GPS device and some hacking tools, the spy sneaks from house to house, tapping into vulnerable Wi-Fi systems and exposing networks that can be accessed with ease. But this isn’t a human testing out the security capabilities of homes; rather, it’s a cat fitted with a gadget around its neck to see if pets could hack into Wi-Fi networks. Titled ‘Weaponising your pets: The War Kitteh and the Denial of Service Dog,’ Bransfield’s presentation will explain how he used a cat and tracking collar to hack into Wi-Fi networks. 'The collar contained a GPS device and a cellular component and would track your cats movements throughout the neighbourhood,’ Bransfield explains on the Def Con website. Using a friend’s cat called Coco, he was able to find 23 Wi-Fi hotspots and more than a third of them used WEP encryption and thus could be hacked into.

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How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi
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How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi

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Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. 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 …

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