Monday, April 28th, 2008
Wireless networking technologies are a rich playground for hackers -- both ethical penetration testers and malicious attackers. There are many avenues of attack, ranging from attacking the infrastructure, the clients, or the actual traffic through man-in-the-middle sniffing and manipulation. Rich Mogull covered the wireless “Evil Twin” attack in his recent ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Scott Rolf knows trouble when he sees it. An IT director for a law firm near Cleveland, Ohio, Rolf was asked by a friend to check out the new Web site the friend had put up on a DSL-connected Web server. Rolf did more than just visit his friend's site; ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Cisco's Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router has a flaw that could allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on vulnerable devices. Even if the remote administration feature on the device is turned off, the router serves the administration web page on ports 80 and 443, protected only by a weak ...
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