Well WEP came down long ago, it was only a matter of time before the standard that succeeded it fell too - WPA. The big news last week was that WPA has been cracked finally, it’ll be discussed this week at the PacSec Conference.
After the insecurity of WEP was exposed the majority of routers and [...]
MoocherHunter™ is a mobile tracking software tool for the real-time on-the-fly geo-location of wireless moochers and hackers. It’s included as part of the OSWA Assistant LiveCD we mentioned quite recently.’
I wanted to mention this tool separately as I think it’s very cool!
MoocherHunter™ identifies the location of an 802.11-based wireless moocher or hacker by the traffic [...]
The OSWA-Assistant is a no-Operating-System-required standalone toolkit which is solely focused on wireless auditing. As a result, in addition to the usual WiFi (802.11) auditing tools, it also covers Bluetooth and RFID auditing. Using the toolkit is as easy as popping it into your computer’s CDROM and making your computer boot from it!
This toolkit is [...]
Ah another way to exploit wifi, what a surprise!
Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system’s wireless device driver.
The hack will be demonstrated at the upcoming Black Hat USA 2006 conference during a presentation by David Maynor, a research engineer with Internet Security [...]
