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PC Hacked via WiFi Interface




Wasn't there something in one of the RFPs about including a wireless interface?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/21/79536_HNwifibreach_1.html


Researchers hack Wi-Fi driver to breach laptop
One of many flaws found allowed them to take over a laptop by exploiting a bug in an 802.11 wireless driver

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By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
June 21, 2006
Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver.