Monday, May 12th, 2008
I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the WiFi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the networks was called "Free Public WiFi". If this happens to you, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.
Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human body at a maximum speed of 10 Mbps.
RedTacton uses the minute ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Ars Technica's original Wireless Security Blackpaper was first published back in 2002, and in the intervening years, it has been a great reference for getting the technical lowdown on different wireless security protocols. As a sequel to the original blackpaper, we wanted to do something a little more basic and ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I am pretty sure that there are a number of you out there reading this blog over a wireless network. Given that wireless is so widely distributed these days, its not uncommon that users are unaware of how insecure their wireless setup maybe.
Unfortunately one other reality is that a number ...
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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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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Our columnist shows you how to get rid of spyware, shrug off spam, and stay safe on unsecured public networks.
Viruses, spyware, and worms. Oh, my!
We all know the dangers inherent in accessing the Internet, and we all take precautions. Yet our PCs still occasionally get infected because we can't know ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Wireless security vendors used last week's conference here to showcase both the problems and solutions in controlling access to wireless voice and data.
AirTight Networks launched SpectraGuard Online, touted as wireless security's first manifestation of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that more vendors -- and a few cyber criminals -- are using.
In ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
About one percent of the Internet web pages are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
While most VoIP-related vulnerabilities are posted to the VOIPSA mailing list or blog, I thought it might be useful to have a informal quarterly summary of sorts among VoIP devices per searches from NIST. I hope folks find it helpful, and of course post comments if I’ve overlooked anything from ...
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