Tips to use your cat hack WiFi neighbors password

Usually, you will expect your cat to bring back a mouse or a bird. But those things are useless. What if the cat returned to your neighbor's WiFi information?

An innovative security researcher has found a way to use cats to identify vulnerable Wi-Fi systems in the area around your home.

Gene Bransfield, a researcher who turned his cat Coco into a street detective, found a free Wi-Fi network with a homemade bracelet, made from WiFi cards, GPS modules, Spark Core chips, and batteries. and leopard fabric.

Bransfield called his test Warkitteh, using a WiFi connection at the parking spot. He decided to turn cats into hackers because the idea was interesting and also because cats accounted for 15% of Internet traffic. He did not intend to turn it into a real hack tool, but to try it out for fun.

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Tools for making devices to find WiFi hotspots that Bransfield uses

'I don't intend to show people where to find free WiFi, I just put some technology on the cat and let it go around making me happy,' says Bransfield at Tenacity security consulting firm. . 'As a result, the cat brought many open WiFi access points and WEP encryption'.

Within 3 hours of walking around, Coco has found 23 WiFi networks, including 4 routers that use old encryption, are vulnerable and 4 routers are not fully protected, easily broken.

Bransfield identifies WiFi networks with a program using the Google Earth API. The number of WiFi access points surprised him. Accordingly, some WEP connections are the Verizon FiOS router still using the default settings.