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.

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.