Why Nation States and Cybercrooks Love Wi-Fi

Data Security and Privacy with the Privacy Professor

In April it was widely reported, throughout worldwide news outlets, that Russian hackers were working to infiltrate as many wi-fi networks throughout the world as possible; for the general public as well as businesses, organizations and government networks. News outlets in the UK indicated that over 100,000 wi-fi routers were compromised. Worldwide government security researchers warned that millions of wi-fi routers had been compromised by Russian nation-state intelligence officers; those in addition to the already large amount of attempts being made daily by cyber criminals. Why are Russian, and other countries', nation state hackers looking to get into the home wi-fi network of folks throughout the world, as well as every type of business and organization wi-fi network that is vulnerable? And what types of code and data do they want to load onto those networks? What harms can they do? In this episode I discuss these topics with my guest, Tom Eston, who is a wi-fi security expert!