Call them traditionalists, but breaching wireless networks apparently does not hold the same allure for hackers as wreaking havoc on closed systems via the wired Internet -- at least not so far.
Despite efforts to ferret out truly insidious hacking on Wi-Fi systems, security experts generally have turned up little evidence of nefarious activity. For instance, one honeypot set up by a government contractor in the Washington, D.C., area earlier this year failed to attract much attention in its first few weeks.
One possible explanation is that hacking Wi-Fi is too easy. And with constant warnings about how porous these networks can be, users have been cautious about transmitting sensitive data over them, so there is not much to steal.
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