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- Investigate WarDriving and wireless penetration testing with OS X
- When people think of WarDriving and attacking wireless networks, Linux is usually the first OS that comes to mind. While there are excellent tools available for Linux, there are also several outstanding tools for the wireless hacker available for OS X. In this sample chapter from ...
- Tags: Penetration Testing, Tool, Syngress, WarDriving, Chapter Coverage, Apple Mac OS X, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Book chapters 2007-03-13
- Intel experiments with Wi-Fi as GPS substitute
- Intel experiments with Wi-Fi as GPS substitutewi-fi saturation?Though I can obviously see the advantage of such technology, hwo many places on earth are actually dense enough in wi-fi hotspots for this to be viable? Apart from 10-15 cities in the US, how often can one pick up service reliably...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, wardriving, irony, Intel Corp., Wi-Fi, GPS
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- 'Wardriving' conviction is first under Can-Spam
- 'Wardriving' conviction is first under Can-Spamlol, this guy was mental"In November 2003, Toronto police stopped a car for a traffic infraction and discovered that the driver was naked from the waist down and was playing, on a laptop computer on the front seat, a pornographic video that had apparently been...
- Tags: Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Wardriving, CAN-SPAM Act
- Discussion threads 2004-09-30
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- Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?
- Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I've been saying this for a while.[i]When it comes to trade-offs between security and convenience, convenience always wins.[/i]security = 1 / convenienceRE: Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I can't believe that you're endorsing having the police in any country "wardriving" around to detect...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, LANs, Wi-Fi, WLAN, router, Wi-Fi connection
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?
- Flip open your notebook pretty much anywhere and there's a good chance you'll come across at least one unsecured WiFi connection. Police in Queensland, Australia, are going wardriving to actively look for open WiFi connections in order to warn users about the dangers. But who's really to blame for unsecured...
- Tags: Wi-Fi Connection, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream
- No weak password can survive a GPU-accelerated password recovery attack. Last week's released Wireless Security Auditor is prone to shorter the time it takes for a network administrator to pen-test the strength of the WPA/WPA2-PSK passwords used on the wireless network. Its core functionality of shortening the wireless password recovery...
- Tags: Password, Network, Password Cracking, Wireless, GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi Password Cracking, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- PrettyMap - World Atlas and Maps, Elevation Relief, GPS support, POI editor 5.7 (Mobile)
- PrettyMapView maps of Earth and other planets with PrettyMap! See current day and night regions, learn geography by taking the quiz,enjoy relief elevation surfaces, measure distances between locations and create your own maps with special places!PrettyMap lets you view off-line vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries,...
- Tags: Mobile, Maciej Komosinski, PrettyMap, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-12-02
- Survey: 88% of Mumbai's wireless networks easy to compromise
- Deloitte's recently released Wireless Security Survey assessing Mumbai's -- India's financial capital -- state of security awareness in respect to wireless security, shows an ugly picture of insecure wireless networks in both, business, and residential districts. With Mumbai being the home of India's most important financial institutions, next to the...
- Tags: Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Retail, hacker, hacking, huge hacking, wireless, Manifesto, theft case
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- A federal grand jury returned indictments today on 11 defendants in one of the largest hacking and online theft cases ever. The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals from around the world with stealing 40 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking the networks of nine retailers and stealing an...
- Tags: Belarus, Hacking, Debit Card, Ukraine, Debit Card Number, Unauthorized Access Device, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- ID theft bust: Indictments are nice, more arrests much nicer
- Praise be, big time. Almost. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys offices in Massachusetts and California announced today that they have indicted 11 individuals as part of an international ring of hackers (really, crackers) who purloined at least 40 million credit card and debit...
- Tags: U.S., Network, Debit Card, U.S. Department Of Justice, Ukraine, Identity Theft, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- WirelessMon 3.0 build 1002 (Windows)
- WirelessMon is a software tool that allows users to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapters and gather information about nearby wireless access points and hot spots in real time. WirelessMon can log the information collected into a file, provides comprehensive graphing of signal level and real time IP and...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, WirelessMon, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-29
- Why I run an open Wi-Fi network
- Why I run an open Wi-Fi networkI share the bandwidth, tooI have gone on trips where I've used someone's home wifi for a quick e-mail or checking something like the location of a business or whatever, when I haven't been able to find a business giving an open WiFi Hotspot....
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Network technology, Wi-Fi, open Wi-Fi network, network, cable, Wi-Fi network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Wi-Fi piggybackers confess
- Wi-Fi piggybackers confessWi-Fi piggybackers confesswhere i live there are literally hundreds of unsecured wifi networks - and that includes some business networks as well. It is amazing just how careless some people are when it comes to wifi.But what your article fails to mention is that with these unsecured networks...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Unsecured WiFi, Wi-Fi, HotSpot, piggybacker, Wi-Fi piggybacker
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Addicted to WiFi
- Addicted to WiFiI'd bet that ...... Devil's Lake, North Dakota has a StarBucks and a T-Mobile Hot Spot to go with it. Before you go off and upgrade your VerizonWireless service though, I'd BE SURE that they have CDMA-1X service (or even better, EvDO) in Devil's Lake, ND. ...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Map your WarDrive with these two popular mapping applications
- When WarDriving to test and analyze the security of a particular wireless network, one of the best things you can do is to map out your results. Maps generated from a WarDrive are very beneficial for identifying the correct WLAN of your target and for determining the maximum...
- Tags: Chapter, Syngress, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2007-01-24
- WarDrive: Investigate and defend the security of wireless networking
- As more and more wireless networks are deployed, the need to secure them increases. Enter WarDriving, an effort to educate wireless-network users about the insecurities associated with wireless networking. In brief, WarDriving is the act of moving around a specific area and mapping the population of wireless access...
- Tags: Security, Network, Wireless Networking, Syngress, WarDrive, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Book chapters 2006-12-06
- Guide Book for Old Pocket PC (Mobile)
- 7How to Get the Best Out of Your Old Pocket PCHow to Get the Best Out of Your Old Pocket PCis a Pocket Guide Book giving you many valuable informations for your old Pocket PC.Covers These Topics: What's with ARM, MIPS and SH3? Put Today Theme on your device Listen...
- Tags: Mobile, PC, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2005-08-20
- Common concerns about wireless LAN security
- Common concerns about wireless LAN securityConsumer-grade WirelessI'm finding a lot of the manufacturers of consumer-grade wireless products just don't care about providing decent security to SOHO users. A lot of prodcts out there are only capable of WEP (64-bit or 128-bit) and even then there are hints that there...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Home networking, Network security, Atheros Communications, WPA, NetGear, D-Link Systems, wireless
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
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