Pringles Tube Hacking

Internet users amount were increased tremendously. Most of them know about the security trend in internet world. Few years back  most of the companies used broadband connection for their online transactions and other communications. But now the trend is WIRELESS networks. Because most companies has at least more than 30 computers, so giving broadband connection to all is some what tedious process. So they switch their option to wireless.

We know that “Every thing is imperfect in world”. Even though wireless communication gave us simplicity to work, it has many drawbacks. hackers took  look in different way. simply to say “wireless hacking “.  This is the case here also. It is a new trend in wireless hacking.

As i said early, Hacker view on a product is different with  our view. We saw potato chips alone in a “pringles can”, but Hackers saw “wireless hacking” in that.

Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack.

Security company i-sec has demonstrated that a directional antenna made with a Pringles can significantly improves the chances of finding the wireless computer networks being used in London’s financial district.

An informal survey carried out by i-sec using the homemade antenna has found that over two-thirds of networks were doing nothing to protect themselves.

The security firm said all the companies at risk could easily thwart anyone that wanted to find and penetrate their network by making a few simple changes to the hardware used to build the wireless networks.

Hacking with this :

In November last year BBC News Online was shown just how easy it is to find and gain information about wireless networks

These networks are rapidly becoming popular because they are cheap, easy to set up and replace the unsightly cables that many companies have used to link PCs together into networks

But the convenience of using radio waves to transfer data between machines is not without its risks.

Many curious hackers have started carrying out so-called war-driving expeditions.

US security expert Peter Shipley invented the practice. It involves driving around an area using a laptop fitted with a wireless network card to find and map out the networks.

Crisp signal

Wireless, or WiFi, networks have an encryption system built in, but it is not turned on when the basic hardware of the network is set up

“Many companies are going out and buying a wireless access point to see what it can do,” said Mr Davies. “The problem is that they have opened a great big back door into their network.”

He said that i-sec had boosted the chance of spotting networks by converting an empty can of Pringles into a directional, or Yagi, antenna. Plans to make such an antenna first appeared on the net last year.

Properly made, such an antenna can boost signal strengths by up to 15 decibels, vastly aiding the discovery of wireless networks.

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