posted in Reading material on Jan 2nd, 2010
Larry Seltzers glossary about wireless security terms found on www.eweek.com. Wireless Security: A Partial Glossary of Wireless Security Terms Just about a month ago, in early November, the news came out that the first cracks were appearing in WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, a very popular wireless security standard. The compromise that was accomplished by [...]
posted in Reading material, Stuff on Nov 27th, 2009
Nice article about botnets, click fraud and spamming. You can find the original article (written by Yury Namestnikov) on www.viruslist.com. The Economics of Botnets In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control center) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of [...]
posted in Reading material, Stuff on Nov 8th, 2009
This is the document with the proof of concept which explains the attack on the SSL/TLS reconnect vulnerability. It allows to inject data into the encrypted data stream, often without detection by either end of the connection. I normally don’t publish exploit codes because of it’s short time value. But this one is rather special. [...]
posted in Reading material, Stuff on Nov 1st, 2009
This is a document from 2005. Quite old you may think but the techniques described there still work today. In the meantime, after four years, there is still no real remedy to stop people conducting such kind of attacks. DDos, SYN flooding and smurf attacks are still a problem. Also because there is some code [...]
posted in Reading material on Oct 14th, 2009
Introduction This tutorial walks you though a very simple case to crack a WEP key. It is intended to build your basic skills and get you familiar with the concepts. It assumes you have a working wireless card with drivers already patched for injection. It is recommended that you experiment with your home wireless access [...]