Hacker shows how easy it is to take over a citys public Wi-Fi network

Israeli hacker shows that he could have taken over the free Wi-Fi network of an entire city. Amihai Neiderman, head of research at Israeli cybersecurity firm Equus Technologies, discovered a wireless hotspot in Tel Aviv, Israel. He found that the device was serving a web-based login interface over port 443 (HTTPS) This interface displayed the manufacturer’s name — Peplink — but not other information about the device type or model. He presented his findings and reverse-engineering efforts Thursday at the DefCamp security conference in Bucharest, Romania.”]

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