Posts Tagged ‘wireless’

I want to start by saying that this document is not new. It’s floated around the internet for awhile, but it’s still very, very relevant. It discusses various different wireless threats (802.11, Bluetooth, et. al) and some easily executed exploits to attack these protocols. I think anyone who reads my blog is already very, very [...]

I haven’t had a chance to write yet but I came across this video from Hak 5 that covers some of the cool stuff that I saw at DefCon 18 this year. When I compile all of my notes, I will be writing a few posts covering the topics that interested me most, but for [...]

Ok, so with all the hype surrounding this vulnerability, I figured that I would do a write up and give an example of how it works. Metasploit, as usual, makes it really simple. I really consider this to be a social engineering attack, because you need the victim to access a share. Yes, in the [...]

Internet users in Germany, whose wireless networks are left password unprotected, can be fined up to 100 euros, according to a recent ruling by Germany’s top criminal court. The ruling is in response to a musician’s lawsuit against a user whose unprotected wireless network was used for downloading and sharing music over P2P. (Source: ZDNet) [...]

A Minnesota man has been indicted for hacking into his neighbor’s Wi-Fi network and posing as the neighbor to threaten U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and e-mail child pornography, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The indictment, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, charges Barry Vincent Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, [...]

One question that I get asked quite often is, “how do you attack a wireless network if it uses MAC address filtering??” There’s a myth that MAC address filtering is the end-all, be-all wireless security feature that will prevent even WEP networks from being owned. This simply is not the case. There are a few [...]

I’ve been working on becoming more fluent using Scapy and as a result, I’m picking up Python. Totally by accident. It turns out, I’m growing pretty fond of it. It’s got its quirks, but it’s pretty straight forward. Anyway, here’s one of the first things that I wrote in it. It sends a DHCP Discover [...]

This is probably going to consist of multiple parts, the first part being the concept and background, the next part being some code to implement, and the third will be about putting it all together and what it looks like in the wild. But, first, we’ll start with some background.