Three hours later, the felineowned by Bransfield's wife's grandmotherreturned with data on eight routers that were left unprotected or were using a vulnerable form of encryption (and a mouse carcass).
He then sent Siamese cat Coco (pictured) off into a suburban Washington, D.C., neighborhood in hopes of identifying unprotected or weakly guarded Wi-Fi networks. Bransfield, a principle system security engineer with Tenacity Solutions, outfitted the collar with custom-coded firmware, a Wi-Fi card, a miniature GPS module, and a battery, Wired reported (Opens in a new window). "I laughed, and started working on it."īut instead of simply keeping track of Fluffy as he perused the great outdoors, Bransfield decided to use the collar to sniff out insecure Wi-Fi setups. "Me being the guy I am, I thought 'All you need now is a Wi-Fi sniffing device and you'd have a War Kitteh,'" he said in a DefCon presentation summary (Opens in a new window). After one presentation, an audience member offered himĪ cat-tracking collar that allows a pet owner to keep track of their feline around the neighborhood. To keep those who attend his talks engaged, Bransfield has long included photos and stories about cats in his rather technical presentations. It's not a drone mutiny or robot uprising we should be worried about, but animal warfare.ĭuring last week's DefCon hacking conference, security researcher Gene Bransfield demonstrated his War Kitteh cat collar, and showed the audience how they, too, can turn their pet into a Wi-Fi spy.
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