10/15/2008

unsecure wireless routers give many possibilities

to terrorists in India

Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, the IT executive arrested from the city, has been described as the head of an Indian Mujahideen module that hacked Wi-Fi networks to send Terror mails before and after serial blasts. He had taken up a course in ethical hacking

To scammers and fraudulent salespeople in New Zealand

The 29-year-old is also accused of hijacking people's wireless internet connections to sell the goods. He is facing 46 charges.

TradeMe had been following the cyber-criminal's bargain goods for several months.

"These people have gone out there, tried to fake their identity, tried to steal an internet connection but the fact is you're still going to get caught because you can't erase every track that you leave on the internet" says Dean Winter, TradeMe.

With fake IDs, he was logging into TradeMe and selling stolen laptops, iPods and digital cameras at cheap prices.

He would travel round the city with a stolen computer, searching for wireless internet connections

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