How to Steal Passwords Using FireSheep (Kind of) FireSheep is a firefox plugin that can be used to highjack web sessions on an open wifi network. It’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the [...]
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Windows Phone 7 MAC Address Microsoft Windows Phone 7 doesn’t allow users to find out their device’s MAC address from the wireless phone. Not sure how or why this very basic capability was not included in the just released Windows 7 Phone since every other Microsoft operating system has this capability. I think in an [...]
Filed under: Gadgets, WLAN/WiFi News
Wi-Fi Direct Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Wi-Fi Direct™ is a certification mark for devices supporting a game-changing new technology enabling Wi-Fi devices to connect directly, making it simple and convenient to do things like print, share, synch and display. Products bearing the Wi-Fi Direct certification mark can connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office [...]
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Riverbed Acquires CACE Technologies CACE Technologies, maker of AirPcap an 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless LAN packet capture adapter has been acquired by Riverbed. AirPcap can capture full 802.11 data, management, and control frames that can be viewed in Wireshark thereby providing in-depth protocol dissection and analysis capabilities. CACE also markets high end wired side packet capture [...]
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WLANController.com Moving to the Cloud We are getting closer to launching the next version of WLANController.com our Virtual Access Point Manager for managing software access points and scanners. For the next version we will be operating the http://manage.wlancontroller.com manager “in the cloud” as the kids would say. We are using Amazon Web Services and we [...]
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Google’s Future Plans for Its Location-based Services Google has stopped using Google Streetview cars to collect WiFi Positioning data. You can check to see if your access point’s MAC address is in Google’s WiFi positioning database by using our Ouilookup tool. Below is information from a report released by The Office of the Privacy Commissioner [...]
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World’s Largest WiFi Hotspot A little WiFi humor…. Question: Who has the world’s biggest WiFi hotspot? Answer: Linksys A few years ago the above was probably true because all Linksys WiFi routers shipped with default SSID linksys, configure for channel 6 and no encryption. Based on WiGLE stats, linksys is still the top SSID and [...]
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure. The NCSA has developed a series of Tip Sheets to provide in-depth information on how to stay safe in a variety [...]
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Which Airline Has WiFi? Ever wonder if your flight has WiFi before purchasing the ticket? You’re in luck there is a new web site called HasWiFi that allows you to search if your flight will have WiFi using using the carrier name and flight number. Hopefully there will be a day when all flights have [...]
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How To Hide Your MAC Address From WiFi Positioning Databases WiFi positioning databases store the BSSID, GPS coordinates and RSSI value. The information is collected by wardriving efforts and/or crowd sourced using mobile phones such as the iPhone and Android phones. Several well known companies such as Google and Apple maintain WiFi positioning databases. We [...]
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