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Wireless Presenters Attacked Using an Arduino

js — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:32 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “This week Dutch security researcher Niels Teusink described a method of attacking wireless presenter devices at an Amsterdam security conference. He had a demo showing how it is possible to use an Arduino and Metasploit to …

German User Fined For Having an Open WI-Fi

js — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:38:23 +0000

Kilrah_il writes “A German citizen was sued for copyright infringement because copyrighted material was downloaded through his network while he was on vacation. Although the court did not find him guilty of copyright infringement, he was fined for not having …

Wi-Fi Direct aims to be the ‘Bluetooth Killer’

js — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:13:26 +0000

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Imagine a wireless home network where devices communicate directly with one another instead of through the wireless router — a sort of mesh network without the need to switch to ad hoc mode. Today the Wi-Fi …