Kᴇᴄᴄᴀᴋ / Keccak Wins NIST SHA-3 Competition Keccak (pronounced “catch-ack”) was selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the winning hash algorithm after a five-year competition. A cryptographic hash function is a hash function, that is, an algorithm that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, [...]
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attwifi SSID and the iPhone’s Secret Relationship AT&T iOS 5 iPhones have a special behavior when it comes to the SSID “attwifi”. Based on my testing iOS 5 iPhones automatically connect to the attwifi SSID even without user intervention. To confirm this I did below. 1) Moved phone to a place with “attwifi” SSID (this [...]
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Software-Based WLAN Sensors During our consulting engagements with government, financial and retail organizations we continue to hear that they know they need and should deploy a wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) / wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) solution but they just can’t afford it. Even after negotiating the best pricing from vendors and following most [...]
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OpenWIPS-ng – Open Source and Modular Wireless IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) OpenWIPS-ng is an open source project WIDS/WIPS by Thomas d’Otreppe, the author of Aircrack-ng. The idea started from a project where Thomas came up with a way to monitor all the 2.4 channels using multiple cards and he continued expanding on idea for detection [...]
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How Android and iOS Can Protect Users from WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi Protected Setup specification describes how a wireless device can be automatically configured with wireless network security settings. The goal was to make it easier for non techies to configure devices to securely connect to wireless routers. On Dec 27, 2011 [...]
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Reaver WPS Attack Tool for Mac OS? Reaver is an attack tool developed Tactical Network Solutions that exploits a protocol design flaw in WiFi Protected Setup (WPS). At this time a Mac version of Reaver does not exist. The response from Craig Heffner of Tactical Network Solutions is below after someone reported that open source [...]
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Why Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Was Created Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi Protected Setup specification describes how a wireless device can be automatically configured with wireless network security settings. The goal was to make it easier for non techies to configure devices to securely connect to wireless routers. For hardware sellers and manufacturers the specification is suppose [...]
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PacketFence Open Source NAC Has WiFi Support PacketFence is a free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution that has 802.1X support via an included FreeRADIUS module. Version 3.1 was recently released and is available as a VMWare image for ESX/ESXi. Components of a PacketFence NAC solution are shown in graphic below. Supported Wireless [...]
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WiFi Scanner for Mac OS $0.99 on Mac App Store WiFi Scanner for Mac OS is $0.99 on Mac App Store. No promo codes, links or coupons needed. WiFi Scanner is an easy-to-use tool for designing, verifying, and troubleshooting WiFi coverage. The tool provides information such signal strength, noise, manufacturer name based on MAC address [...]
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NIST Wireless / WiFi / WLAN Guidelines The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications in the 800 series are documents of general interest to the computer security community. Below are Wireless / WiFi / WLAN focused publications. Number Date Title SP 800-153 Feb. 2012 Guidelines for Securing Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) [...]
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