Category: Wireless Security

Nmap 5.00 Released!

Here’s an extract from their site

July 16, 2009 — Insecure.Org is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00 from http://nmap.org/. This is the first stable release since 4.76 (last September), and the first major release since the 4.50 release in 2007. Dozens of development releases led up to this.

Considering all the changes, we consider this the most important Nmap release since 1997, and we recommend that all current users upgrade.

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Network Auditor Mobile phones.

Mobile Phone Network auditor

NeoPwn is the first network auditing distribution for a mobile phone which loads Backtrack off a MicroSD card to perform penetration testing (pentesting). NoePwn has modified the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner to act as a network security penetration testing device.

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COMPROMISING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMANATIONS OF WIRED KEYBOARDS

Quite an interesting finding.  Two researchers Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini have found that keystokes can be sniffed from the electromagnectic waves generated by the keyboard. They tested around 11 types of keyboard and found they are were vulnerable to atleast one of the 4 types of attack methods. They have recorded a video demonstration of the attack

Experiment And Experiment 2

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Play-stations to hack into wi-fi

Well it is not a uncommon thing now. Play-stations can be used to connect unsecured wi-fi network. Latest versions of play-stations have the ability to connect to internet via wi-fi connection to download updates. Kids can abuse this to view pornography and other do other popular things which we used to do when we were kids :D

Play-station is much cheaper as compared to laptops and can be a cheaper and easier means for war-drivers to hack into wireless routers. Hacking into unsecured wireless routers is like applying butter on bread. Now its high time that every home user should know the basic security configurations while setting up wi-fi network especially in developing countries like India etc.

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Is your wireless network mapped?

Well if you think, you stay a long way away from crowded place and might not be targeted by cruel outside wireless hackers, then I guess you may be wrong. Even if your network is detected by a single war-driver, you may be mapped on wigle and be known worldwide.

wiget.net

wiget.net

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