FireShepherd – The FireSheep Killer

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

FireShepherd, a small console program that floods the nearby wireless network with packets designed to turn off FireSheep, effectively shutting down nearby FireSheep programs every 0.5 sec or so, making you and the people around you secure from most people using FireSheep. The program kills the current version of FireSheep ...

WPA2 security hole discovered

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Security experts at AirTight Networks have discovered a hole in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol. The security hole was named as Hole 196 after the number of the relevant page in the IEEE 802.11 (2007) standard document:. Right at the bottom of this page, the IEEE introduces the keys used ...

Cain & Abel v4.9.34 released

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

New in 4.9.34:Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter. Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems. Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder. Added Windows Live ...

Cain & Abel 4.9.32 released

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...

New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The ...