{"id":170,"date":"2007-12-12T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T05:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T05:09:47","slug":"wifi-worms-the-next-generation-of-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"WiFi worms: the next generation of virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/wifi-worm-spread.png\" title=\"How the WiFi worm spreads\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/wifi-worm-spread.png\" alt=\"How the WiFi worm spreads\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the next generation of malware targets our WiFi routers, it&#8217;s gonna spread like wildfire, taking out 37 per cent of routers within two weeks of infection<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion of Steve Meyers and buddies, computer security experts at Indiana University in Bloomington.<\/p>\n<p>They say that the density of WiFi routers within our cities has reached a critical value that would allow a worm to spread from machine to machine without having to travel over the internet. Such a worm could exploit well known weaknesses associated with WiFi security, such as default or poor password hygiene and &#8220;cracks in the WEP cryptographic protocol&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The group looked at the density of WiFi coverage and the epidemiology of such an outbreak in seven urban areas: Chicago, Boston, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Northern and Southern Indiana.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The striking observation is that the malware rapidly propagates on the WiFi network in the first few hours, taking control of about 37% of the routers after two weeks from the infection of the first router. &#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Antivirus software is not yet available for WiFi routers.  Expect that to change.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0706.3146\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0706.3146<\/a>: WiFi Epidemiology: Can Your Neighbors&#8217; Router Make Yours Sick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the next generation of malware targets our WiFi routers, it&#8217;s gonna spread like wildfire, taking out 37 per cent of routers within two weeks of infection That&#8217;s the conclusion of Steve Meyers and buddies, computer security experts at Indiana University in Bloomington. They say that the density of WiFi routers within our cities has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculatin","category-hellraisin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}