Wardriving is another high-tech identity theft technique.
Meru Networks claims the RF Barrier is the first solution to offer protection of this type and also that '
wardriving' or 'parking lot' attacks have resulted in a number of successful thefts of data from exposed networks.
In 2004, a Michigan man was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in an unsuccessful attempt to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured Wi-Fi network at a store in suburban Detroit using the
wardriving technique.
'
Wardriving in London: 2007' includes data which can be compared to data gathered in the same location a year ago.
Paris, France, is the city with the best protected Wi-Fi networks according to '
Wardriving in Paris', a new report published by Kaspersky Lab, an Internet security company.
NetStumbler was one of the earliest and most popular "
wardriving" tools.
It's called
wardriving, and any techie worth his weight in 1s and 0s can tell you about it.
Aimed at law enforcement executives and managers, the CD explains the basics of systems security and defines a host of technical terms from
wardriving to sniffing that nontechnical personnel can understand.
The international crew used
wardriving techniques to allegedly hack into the wireless networks of TJX, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21, and DSW.
Over the years there have been such fads as 'wardialling' (when hackers would ring many phone numbers to see which ones answered with a data, rather than a dial, tone) and '
wardriving' (travelling around in a car until the laptop picks up a certain network.
In the early days of WiFi, something called "
wardriving" became a favorite pastime of those looking for accessible network hot spots.