Consoles Make A Company Vulnerable To Attack

Interesting article from GamesBeat. At last week’s Defcon hacker conference, Ki-Chan Ahn and Dong-Joo Ha showed how malware can be dropped on a Nintendo DS or Nintendo Wii and a hacker could use it as access to a company’s network. These are good methods of getting into a network because people don’t expect there to be malware on those systems. However, it’s pretty simple to plant some on the DS and Wii.

Here’s a video from their presentation:

Source: GamesBeat