Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Administration
Free Wi-Fi while you’re waiting for your flight? Sounds like a great way to save money, and kudos to Google for offering it at many U.S. airports during the holidays. Unfortunately, Google’s generosity may also lure identity thieves and nefarious hackers to the nation’s terminals to prey on clueless travelers.
Public hotspots, which by nature are [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Administration
Delayed flights and hold-overs won’t tempt you with $10-a-day Wi-Fi this holiday season. That’s because Google has bought out web service at 47 airports through Jan. 15, 2010, and offers it free, assuming you don’t mind a little soft advertising.
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Administration
AirPatrol study finds almost 100 unauthorized WiFi access points at convention.
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Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Administration
“Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth Act,” or Internet Safety Act.
I always wonder who names these bills? Ugh…
Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Administration
The Remote Exploit Development Team has just announced BackTrack 4 Beta. BackTrack is a Linux based LiveCD intended for security testing and we’ve been watching the project since the very early days. They say this new beta is both stable and usable. They’ve moved towards behaving like an actual distribution: it’s based on Debian core, [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Administration
Think of it this way: Chris Paget just did you a service by hacking your passport and stealing your identity. Using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop, Chris recently drove around San Francisco reading RFID tags from passports, driver licenses, and other identity documents. In just 20 minutes, he found [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Administration
My love for xkcd comics has influenced me to write this modified autoconfig “cracking” tool that cracks Wifi WEP password from your neighbors, exactly the way shown in xkcd comic number 416…
Here is the tool in action…
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Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Administration
Subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You’ll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone.
The Wall [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Administration
WiFi is no longer secure enough to protect wireless data.
Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian’s firm’s use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery’ times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi’s WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.
David [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Administration
Open source attack code framework gets even more automated to make exploits point and click. Testers, start your browsers.
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Administration
You’re putting your company’s data at risk when you connect to a hotel network, according to a new study examining Internet connections at U.S. hotels.
The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University surveyed nearly 150 hotels and then conducted on-site vulnerability testing on a sampling of about 50 hotels. About 20 percent of the nearly [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Administration
Criminals exploit wireless vulnerabilities, social engineering to collect large volumes of customer data.
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Administration
If you use someone else’s WiFi signal without permission, you’re a thief. That’s the conclusion of a bill introduced into the Maryland General Assembly last week. Sponsored by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., the legislation would criminalize the unauthorized use of a wireless access point in the state; it has since received an “unfavorable report” [...]
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