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Source: Security-Hacks - Posted by Bill Keys
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Bluetooth technology is great. No doubt. It provides an easy way for a wide range of mobile devices to communicate with each other without the need for cables or wires. However, despite its obvious benefits, it can also be a potential threat for the privacy and security of Bluetooth user.
If you are planning to gain a deeper understanding of Bluetooth security, you will need a good set of tools with which to work. By familiarizing yourself with the following tools, you will not only gain a knowledge of the vulnerabilities inherent in Bluetooth-enabled devices, but you will also get a glimpse at how an attacker might exploit them.
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Source: NetworkWorld - Posted by Bill Keys
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Recent reports of massive credit card theft from retailers that haven’t adequately secured their Wi-Fi networks are unsettling, to say the least.
Organized gang members have been grabbing customer card data out of the air, where it has been unconscionably unencrypted, en route to a banking processing company for authorization. Other breaches are thought to have occurred when hackers tapped into Wi-Fi data streams generated by weakly encrypted wireless barcode scanners, broke the encryption code, and eavesdropped on user sessions to steal their network access credentials.
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Source: FoxNews - Posted by Bill Keys
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Computer users have been warned of the dangers of using Wi-Fi hotspots after it emerged that cyber-criminals are targeting the networks in café chains, including Starbucks.
Times Online has uncovered evidence that criminals are using a technique known as an "evil twin attack," where victims think that they are logging on to the genuine network in a café but are in fact being diverted to a "rogue" connection.
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Source: NIST - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed this document in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, Public Law 107-347.
This document presents information that is independent of particular hardware platforms, operating systems, and applications. The emphasis is on RFID systems that are based on industry and international standards, although the existence of proprietary approaches is noted when they offer relevant security features not found in current standards. |
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Source: BBC - Posted by Bill Keys
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With growing numbers using wi-fi in their homes, Paul Rubens looks at how good security is on these networks.
In less than two minutes hackers can defeat the security measures protecting many home wireless internet connections.
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Source: computerworlduk - Posted by Bill Keys
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The next time you splurge on a double latte and sip it while browsing the internet via the cafe's Wi-Fi, beware of the "evil twin."
That is the term for a Wi-Fi access point that appears to be a legitimate one offered on the premises, but actually has been set up by a hacker to eavesdrop on wireless communications among internet surfers
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IT departments should put pressure on suppliers to step up the security of wireless access technology devices.
This will enable the technology to take off in the corporate world, delegates at the Infosecurity Europe conference will hear next week.
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Source: DarkReading - Posted by Bill Keys
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A researcher from France Telecom has discovered the first remotely exploitable 802.11 WiFi bug on a Linux machine. The kernel stack-overflow bug, which is in the open-source MadWiFi Linux kernel device driver, lets an attacker run their malicious code remotely on an infected machine -- and the infected machine doesn't even have to be on a WiFi network to get "owned."
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Source: eWeek - Posted by Bill Keys
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Researchers have discovered a new way of attacking Wired Equivalent Privacy that requires an amount of data "more than an order of magnitude" less than the best known key-recovery attacks. In effect, the cracking can be done within a minute, as the title of the paper suggests: Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds.
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Source: NetworkWorld - Posted by Bill Keys
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The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it. They plan to demonstrate their findings at a security conference in Hamburg this weekend.
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