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Hacking WEP grants you access to that Wi-Fi network. This means you can directly attack the target system. Exploits that allow arbitrary code execution are re
by lotharbot 15y ago
Hacking WEP grants you access to that Wi-Fi network. This means you can directly attack the target system. Exploits that allow arbitrary code execution are revealed from time to time. If the guy gets behind on security updates, use a known exploit to install a keylogger, and you now have access to the guy's email and other accounts (from his IP address and everything!)
- davis_m 15y agoThe attacker more than likely just sniffed the credentials over the air. With the titles of the "hacking manuals" this guy didn't sound like a very sophisticated attacker. This would have been before the large movement to HTTPS for logins, and a Yahoo login would have been easy to sniff. Even with HTTPS, SSLStrip, Ettercap, and arpspoof makes short work of HTTPS logins.
- laughinghan 15y agoShort work? As in, with a little Googling of these kinds of tools, anyone could be sniffing anyone else's HTTPS logins on a gigantic, campus-wide Wi-Fi network?