Wireless Security

Yes yours truly (Larry, that is) Will be teaching the 6 day SANS Wireless Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing and Defenses (SANS 617) in Regina, Saskatchewan on March 23 – 28, 2009. As this is the first time Wireless Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing and Defenses is being offered in Saskatchewan it is anticipated to fill quickly. […]

I’m always on the lookout for new ways to do recon during an assessment, or be aware how folks could be performing recon against an organization. Being aware of recon methods helps make recommendations to remediate potential exposure. One of the things that can be highly successful for recon on a target is wireless. I’m […]

[Note: This is a re-post from the wrt54ghacks.com blog which has been intergrated into this blog. For an even more updated version of this hack see my article in (IN)Secure Magazine, Issue 17] So, here is the scenario, you need a wireless network for guests, it has to be easily accessible (i.e. can’t require a […]

By Paul Asadoorian There are lots of ways to skin this cat. This came up and piqued my interest because I was looking at the Nessus plugin to do this. This is a neat concept, but relies on some really old information from Nmap 3.50 OS fingerprints. I decided that using Nmap directly is probably […]

INSECURE Magazine Issue 17 has been released for July 2008 and contains an article written by yours truly. I want to first give credit where credit is due to Charlie Vedda from the Packet Protector project, who was instrumental in putting some firmware together in order to make this project a reality. This is a […]

I first created this presentation about a year ago, with the goal to raise awareness about some of the less publicized wireless attacks in use today. It has grown into a 98 slide presentation that covers Wifi, Bluetooth, RFID, and wireless driver attacks, including how to defend yourself. Its a blast to give, and fun […]

or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Hate linux-modules-restricted. Paul and I spent some time a few weeks back trying to get Karma working on my new Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installation. Needless to say we ran into a few problems with the MadWifi-old kernel modules. For those not in the know, Karma is a […]

It looks like we will find out exactly what is going on, however we will have to wait until ToorCon 8 where Cache and Maynor will give a presentation: Recently we gave a public demonstration of an exploit in a wireless device driver. We thought it was timely, important, but most importantly it was super […]