Alarm Sounded over Wi-Fi Networks

Wireless access points could be used by hi-tech criminals to spread viruses and worms. Security holes and the popularity of the devices in cities make them ideal for spreading malware. Using modelling methods from real diseases the team showed how a worm could gradually infect all access points in urban areas. They found that the majority of vulnerable access points would be hit in the first 24 hours of an outbreak

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