Just 11 minutes! British 7-Year-old girl through tutorial cracked WiFi hotspot

A 7-Year-old girl in the UK successfully cracked a WiFi hotspot password in less than 11 minutes after watching online tutorials, the Daily Mail of London reported January 21.

The girl is named Betsi Davis (Betsy Davies) from Dulwich, south of London. The demo video She watched was published under the supervision of cyber-security experts, and was designed to emphasize that cyber-security is really fragile.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors figured out how to recruit a child to attack a public network to highlight the dangers of cyber security, and the little girl was chosen to complete the experiment.

She started the search, then watched a tutorial video about how to crack the wireless network password, and then she created a rogue access point that was often used by attackers to activate the so-called "middleman" and start eavesdropping and sniffing traffic.

Rogue access points are wireless access points that can be installed in the company's network without the company's knowledge. These access points cover legitimate networks, allowing hackers to attack and intercept data. In this way, the girl becomes the legal and effective "middleman" between the wireless network and the computer client.

"The results are worrisome, but not entirely unexpected," he said. "It lets me know how easy it is for a layman to get information from a stranger," says Marcus Dempsey, an independent network security expert Marcus Dempsey the experiment. In the present age, children often know more about science and technology than adults, so the so-called hackers become children's games. The aim of this experiment is to make young people aware of the dangers of cyber-security and to enhance their moral awareness. ”

Experts predict it will become easier to crack free public WiFi in 2015. The survey said hackers can make a café customer's mobile phone connected to a fake WiFi, and they are completely unaware. If a mobile phone is stolen, then after being attacked e-mail account, thieves can steal the login information, and then track the owner dynamic, eventually stealing online bank accounts.

According to the survey, more than half of Britons have been abused by the Internet, and about 59% of people often use unsafe or open WiFi hotspots.