Wireless Security

A few people have written me to ask for a copy of my wireless presentation that I gave at the ACUTA conference. You can find it here: http://secweekly2.wpengine.com/presentations/WirelessNetSec.pdf I have also added it to the Presentations section of the web site. Check it out, and drop me a note and let me know what you […]

No, the SSID for this one is not “linksys”, its a new company called FON who just got some major investment from Google & Skype. So here’s the deal, you take DD-WRT and hack it up so that they any Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL series 2-4 router running it can be part of the global hotspot network. […]

At the recent Schmoocon security conference there was a presentation by “Simple Nomad” titled “Hacking the Friendly Skies” that described attack methods against Windows systems wireless configuration (a.k.a Wireless Zero Configuration). There has been much debate about whether these attacks are new or not, and there appears to be some duplicate efforts in this space. […]

“The Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone provides Voice Over IP service via IEEE 802.11b Wi-Fi networks and has a form-factor similar to a cordless phone. This product contains two vulnerabilities: The first vulnerability is an SNMP service with fixed community strings that allow remote users to read, write, and erase the configuration of an affected […]

“Wireless enthusiasts have been repurposing satellite dishes for a couple years now. This summer the longest link ever was established over 125 miles using old 12 foot and 10 foot satellite dishes. Check out the image This is cool, can’t wait to build one. They state that they can grab wireless networks from 8 miles […]