Interesting story on a study of wifi honeypots in London. Evidently rush hour is the most popular time for wifi hacking.

It found that the most popular time for war driving was between nine and 10 am and between five and six pm.

This suggested to investigators that people scan for wireless access points during their commutes to and from the office, either on foot or in the car.

Virtually no activity was recorded at weekends.

On average 3.4 attempts to access the network were spotted each day. Of these, 84% appeared to be harmless war-driving hobbyists content to pinpoint a vulnerability and move on.

Only 16% of the probes actually accessed the network, but of these a worrying three-quarters appeared to have malicious intentions.

posted by mt at 11:00