Some black hats have discovered a vulnerability in the device driver for certain types of wireless network cards. The article is over at Infoworld and is pretty interesting. Apparently the card even being powered on is enough for it to receive this attack. The premise is flooding it with large numbers of packets, basically like [...]
I bought one of these over the weekend, and it arrived yesterday. Setup was a breeze, didn’t bother using the CD. I now have WPA2-PSK securing my wireless network. Definitely worth the upgrade over my old Gateway router that came with my laptop back in 2004.
I’m going to upgrade the firmware on it that was [...]
FYI you might not be able to reach the website starting at 11pm or so tonight, and running through 8 or 10am tomorrow. I’m having everything transferred to a server which supports PHP 4.4.1.
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I was browsing around trying to stay awake and noticed that Lifehacker has a great article up on how to encrypt your e-mail. It primarily covers Thunderbird with PGP, but has good information regardless of whether you use that application or not.
Just remember, even though encryption is a great way to have secure communications, [...]
So you’ve just gotten home from buying whatever wireless router your friends told you to get, well that or whatever the salesman suckered you into. (Subliminal message: Linksys WRT54G)
You want to setup a handfull of computers in your house to partake in the new wireless party, except for one little problem: you don’t know what [...]
New Telephony has an article up on VOIP network security detailing the activities of Edwin Andrew Pena, who hacked into various VOIP networks and routed his calls through them, then billed them. These attacks weren’t new, in fact they were over 10 years old. I guess these companies didn’t think VOIP packets were any different [...]
The Security Fix blog reports, along with the latest round of Microsoft exploits, that an anonymous hacker has won the iDefense Vulnerability Challenge.
What a payday eh? Ethical Hacking does have its uses!
Exerpt:
“Speaking of iDefense (scoop alert!) … remember back in February when I wrote about iDefense offering their “quarterly vulnerability challenge,” a $10,000 [...]
While doing some daily reading, I came across a good article on CNN. It states that with the click of the mouse complete strangers can find Social Security numbers, birthdates, bank loans and even digitized signatures that a clever thief could easily manipulate onto official-looking documents. Basically everything anyone would need to steal your [...]
For those of you familiar with the the specification (and for those of you who aren’t) (which is estimated to become official in April of 2008) it appears that the Task Group charged with creating the specification does not seem to have intentions to implement protection for control frames on the wireless network.
This means it [...]
Ars Technica has an article with some updates on the network neutrality issue that has been terrorizing us as of late. It mainly has to do with the rumblings caused by the measure not being enacted by Congress last Thursday.
The problem I see with this is the massive amount of taxpayer money that has gone [...]
