A group of talented individuals over at the University of Liverpool, spearheaded by Network Security Professor Allan Marshall, has developed a virus called Chameleon which not only can infiltrate “poorly managed” Routers and Access Points, but also effectively spread to other wireless devices, particularly in a dense populated area where Wi-Fi … (more)
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have demonstrated that a computer virus can spread through Wi-Fi access points between homes and businesses just like the common cold spreads from one human to another. The researchers have performed an experiment in a laboratory setting with the aid of the Chameleon virus, which uses a WLAN attack […]
We are seeing in the media some noise about a large distributed brute force attacks against all hosts targeting WordPress sites. According to reports, they are seeing a large botnet with more than 90,000 servers attempting to log in by cycling different usernames and passwords against the WordPress access points: /wp-login.php and /wp-admin.This got us […]
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