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A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever  28 February 2010 
Source: Slashdot - Posted by Alex   
"Martin Beck, who in 2008 co-wrote a paper describing a way to inject packets into a secured Wi-Fi system, is back with a more extensive exploit. His 'Enhanced TKIP Michael Attacks' still don't allow extraction of a key, and are limited to TKIP (not AES-CCMP) WPA-protected networks. Still, he's figured out how to put in large payloads, and to extract data sent from an access point to a client — all without cracking the network key. The attack requires proximity to sniff and inject data, but it's another crack in the older key standard (TKIP) that no one with serious security interests should still be using."
 
Stumbling and Sniffing Wireless Networks in Linux, Part 3  30 November 2009 
Source: Linux Planet - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Last month, we started this series to help you survey and analyze the airwaves with Linux tools. In the first part, we looked at SWScanner after reviewing some basic stumbling and sniffing information. Then in the second part, we discovered KwiFiManager and tcpdump.
 
Configuring Strong Wi-fi (802.1x) Authentication in Linux  24 November 2009 
Source: Linux Planet - Posted by Alex   
In this tutorial series, we'll first see how 802.1X authentication fits into the big picture of wireless LAN security. Then we'll configure the authentication settings in Ubuntu. Lastly, we'll review the manual configuration of 802.1X supplicants. Lets get started!
 
How To Increase Security By Securing Your D-Link Wireless Router  10 November 2009 
Source: makeuseof - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Security is probably the most important aspect of any computing experience and probably one of the most neglected. With security measures, like many things, one can go as deep as they want to go but a little effort to employ the basics can go a long way. While it is said that locks are only for honest people, you wouldn’t go to bed without locking your door. Let’s lock your door by securing your D-Link Wireless Router.
 
How to Crack / Hack your Neighbour Wireless Router using Ubuntu 9.10  10 November 2009 
Source: PMA Box - Posted by Anthony Pell   
This is a short article on configuring an Ubuntu system for sniffing a remote wireless network. First we need to install the necessary Ubuntu packages. This can be done with the Synaptic Package Manager (search for aircrack-ng and kismet) or using the Terminal.

$sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng
$sudo apt-get install kismet

 
Stumbling and Sniffing Wireless Networks in Linux, Part 2  26 October 2009 
Source: Linux Planet - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Last week, we started a tutorial series on stumbling and sniffing networks in Linux. First we reviewed some general stumbling and sniffing information. Then we looked at a NetStumbler look-a-like, SWScanner. Now we'll continue stumbling with KwiFiManager; which can also serve as your wireless connection manger. Then we'll start sniffing with tcpdump, a command-line utility.
 
Cracking WEP with Ubuntu dapper 6.06  30 September 2009 
Source: Ubuntu - Posted by Anthony Pell   
This entry should enable anyone to get Linux up and running and crack a WEP key. It took me about 2 days and myriad tutorials to finally get this to work, and now that I have I feel that I should share it with everyone. I am by no means a Linux expert, but this works regardless. All you need is a old laptop with a wireless card and a copy of Ubuntu Linux, currently one of the most popular and easily installed distributions of linux. If you haven’t already bought a wireless card, you should select one from this list to save yourself some trouble.
 
Open-source firmware vuln exposes wireless routers  01 September 2009 
Source: The Register - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made by Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it.
 
One-minute WiFi crack puts further pressure on WPA  01 September 2009 
Source: arsTechnica - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Researchers have come a step closer to breaking open a common WiFi encryption scheme. An attacker can now read and falsify short packets in the common TKIP version of WiFi Protected Access (WPA) encryption in about one minute—a huge speed increase from the previously-required 12-15 minutes.
 
Researchers crack WPA Wi-Fi encryption in 60 seconds  27 August 2009 
Source: ZDNet - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Computer scientists in Japan have developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in just one minute.
 
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