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Researcher Hack Wi-Fi Drivers to take control of a PC

Posted by geeknews at 4:17 AM on June 22, 2006

If this does not make your eyebrows raise nothing will. I had not thought it possible to be able to actually exploit a system device driver in order to gain control of a computer. The ramifications of this revelation is huge. If you have a wireless network in your home, and all of your PC’s are hooked up via wireless. Someone could effectively sit out on the street and your computers could be hacked and exploited Simply Amazing! [InfoWorld]

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