JUST 24 hours. That’s how long it would take a computer virus to infect half the wireless internet connections in New York.
Wireless routers are vulnerable to a potentially devastating form of cybercrime because they, like computers, have memories and are programmable. They are also now so commonplace that in crowded cities the ranges of neighbouring devices often overlap. A previous study by of Indiana University in Bloomington, and colleagues, showed that a virus planted on just one router could hop from device to device until it had infected large swathes of a city.
Now the team has…
