Scientists Demonstrate Virus That Spreads Across Wi-Fi Access Points

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Liverpool have shown for the first time that WiFi networks can be infected with a virus that can move through densely populated areas as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans. The team designed and simulated an attack by a virus, called 'Chameleon,' that not only could spread quickly between homes and businesses, but avoided detection and identified the points at which WiFi access is least protected by encryption and passwords. The research appears in EURASIP Journal on Information Security." The technical details are explained in the journal article.

A Wifi Virus?!

[Anonymous Coward]

We shall call it...the Flappy Bird Flu.

You're welcome.

PostScript Virus

[Greyfox]

I wanted to do something like that on network-attached postscript printers a few years back, but didn't have an easy way to open a network socket in PostScript. My virus would have moved from printer to printer and done nothing else except replace every instance of the word "Strategic" with the word "Satanic" on printed documents.

Pure BS. Nothing to see here

[markgamache]

This is not science or IT security, it is pure PR crackpot FUD conjecture. The "Chameleon" virus doesn't exist. Please read my paper on my fake bluetooth virus. Bluetooth is MUCH more pervasive than Wifi. More cell phones than Wifi, more cars, and about the same number of computers. In my model, they all get infected and your wireless speakers, phones and computers play "It's a Small World" 24/7 until we all go crazy. It ends a lot like 28 Days later.

Re:Back in 1990..

[Ol Olsoc]

A cow-orker in another department and I wanted to come up with software

How exactly does one ork a cow?

Re:Back in 1990..

[EvilIdler]

One orker on each side.

Re:Back in 1990..

[baKanale]

Very carefully.