You might think that working
on a secured floor in a 30-story office tower puts you out of reach of
Wi-Fi hackers out to steal your confidential documents.
But researchers in Singapore have demonstrated how attackers using a
drone plus a mobile phone could easily intercept documents sent to a
seemingly inaccessible Wi-Fi printer. The method they devised is
actually intended to help organizations determine cheaply and easily if
they have vulnerable open Wi-Fi devices that can be accessed from the
sky. But the same technique could also be used by corporate spies intent
on economic espionage. more