As the new 802.11n spec, with its increased speed, coverage, and reliability, intersects with a broader selection of vendor offerings, wireless is becoming a viable platform for mission-critical network connectivity.
[From 802.11n Is Here. Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise]
A pair of AP stories addresses Boeing’s Connexion failure and in-flight etiquette for Internet access: The AP’s Anick Jesdanun, who has written a series of detailed articles about the bloom in upcoming in-flight broadband and mobile services, files these two articles on specific aspects of the issue. He writes about Connexion by Boeing, [...]
Motorola has issued a press release summarizing the WiMax achievements that they accomplished in 2007. The company s most prized achievement was the demonstration of the historic first live mobile WiMAX 802.16e handoffs between continuous WiMAX cells supporting voice, data and multimedia applications at the World WiMax Conference held in Chicago in in [...]
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New WEP Attack: Caffe Latte Hits Client, Not Access Point:InfoWorld has a write-up on an upcoming Toorcon presentation by Vivek Ramachandran and Md Sohail Ahmad: The AirTight Networks researchers have developed an attack they call Caffe Latte; it uses a laptop’s attempts to connect to WEP-protected networks as the jimmy that lets the cracker into a position to force the laptop to issue tens of thousands of WEP-encrypted ARP requests, which are used to crack the network key.
Hacking Your Neighbour with Wireless Penetration Tools:Isn’t technology a lovely thing? The advent of wireless networking has made sharing a broadband connection a simple task that even your mother can set one up. Its simplicity however is its downfall. How many available wireless networks can you see? Are they taunting you to try connect but guessing someone’s passphrase is not often easy and you wish you had the skills of movie-style hackers just to break your neighbours encryption algorithm for the fun of it?
Report: TJX thieves exploited wireless insecurities
A major Linux Wi-Fi driver contains a bug that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop–even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.
Forget WEP and WPA; I’m switching over to the EM-SEC Coating System, a recently revealed paint developed by EM-SEC Technologies that acts as an electromagnetic fortress, allowing a wireless network to be contained within painted walls without fear of someone tapping in or hacking wireless networks.
A Network Sniffer On Steroids:Errata has developed a new network sniffer, dubbed ‘Ferret,’ that looks for traffic using 25 protocols, including those for the popular instant message clients as well as DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP. This means the sniffer will capture requests for network addresses, network management tools, Web sites queries, Web traffic and more. ‘You don’t realize how much you’re making public, so I wrote a tool that tells you,’ said Robert Graham, Errata’s chief executive. Errata has released the source code to this version 1.0, ‘feature-poor and buggy’ tool on its site. Anyone with a wireless card will be able to run it, Graham said.
Dvorak from PC Magazine has up an article looking at the new strategy of American cell-phone-service companies. From article: ‘There is mounting evidence that the cellular service companies are going to do whatever they can to kill Wi-Fi. After all, it is a huge long-term threat to them. We’ve seen that the route to success in America today is via public gullibility and general ignorance. And these cell-phone-service companies are no dummies.’”
Unsecured Networks Open Doors To Crime - Anonymity allows more activity to take place:Sure, we know that we need to secure our home and business computer networks to prevent obvious computer crimes such as identity theft. But have you ever thought about the number of other crimes which can take place on unsecured networks, including public WiFi spots, because of the anonymity of using those locations for connection? The Washington Post points out that criminals can sit in public spaces and engage in such crimes as online sex solicitation of minors without much fear of being caught for their activities. Even when police become aware of such activity, they may have trouble tracking users and tracing the paths of criminals. One suggestion is for cities with public WiFi to institute filtering systems which scan who accesses the network.
PanGo unveils WiFi-based active RFID tag:Filed under: WirelessAlthough PanGo isn’t the first firm on the block to kick out WiFi-enabled RFID tags, that didn’t stop the outfit from introducing its latest active unit and aiming it squarely at you (and your officemates). Sure enough, this third-generation “asset tracking tag” touts a smaller form factor, “enhanced functionality,” and extended battery life compared to ones past, but still looks to ride along with you while on employer grounds or while in the company car. The device will reportedly last “over five years” on the built-in battery, and boasts about being the “world’s first” to be compatible with the Cisco Certified Extensions (CCX) tag protocol — which is a “WiFi communication mode that enables a higher level of location accuracy for Cisco 2700 Series Location Appliance customers and the ability for the tag to provide enhanced telemetry reporting.” Most frightening, however, is how close these voyeuristic liaisons are to shipping, and since your boss can place a batch order by the end of the month, you should probably keep a close on anyone trying to slip you something in your coat pocket while ’round the water cooler.[Via DailyWireless] Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsBOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-timeOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
iPass Adds Satellite, 3G Services, Vista Support:A small spate of announcements from remote access firm iPass: The company resells access to 75,000 hotspots worldwide and countless dial-up lines, and has added EVDO Rev…. While they don’t identify which EVDO provider is which, it’s easy to guess that iPass is offering service from both Verizon and Sprint, since there are two networks they offer and two providers of such in the U.S. They call them Network A and Network B, and require separate subscriptions for each network…. Various companies resell terminals and access, but iPass will have the clearest and most transparent model for a company that may deploy a few terminals and have various employees using the network…. (Recall that OnAir and Aeromobile are planning to launch in-flight data services using BGAN eventually–in-flight cell may launch any day now on limited airlines in Europe and Asia–but you can see that the per MB cost on a corporate level makes it impossible for unlimited in-flight satellite-based Internet use…. iPass sells mostly to the corporate market where rather than have each roaming employee set up their own accounts with recurring fees, iPass can meter access or provide negotiated monthly rates across an entire organization….
Infocus: Wireless Forensics: Tapping the Air - Part One:
Wireless Forensics: Tapping the Air - Part One
Debugging WiFi:
By Jeff Root
Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC:An anonymous reader writes “InformationWeek has a review of 6 rootkit detectors.This issue became big last year when Sony released some music CDs which came with a rootkit that silently burrowed into PCs. This review looks at how you can block rootkits and protect your machine using F-Secure Backlight, IceSword, RKDetector, RootkitBuster, RootkitRevealer, and Rookit Unhooker.”
GPS and Bluetooth to soon come on one microchip:
With space becoming an all-important thing in any cellphone these days, Bluetooth chipmaker CSR will soon introduce a single chip Bluetooth and GPS solution.
This is good news for wireless handset makers, who need to get as many functions on chips these days to save space for…well, nothing.
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802.11n Inches Closer - Final draft approval this week?:Glenn Fleishman proclaims that the 802.11 Working Group is expected to approve a draft sometime this week that should go on to be the final 802.11n standard, barring negotiation meltdown. Final approval is still a ways away, with voting expected this Spring, and final spec products released later this year. Of course most of the vendors who have released pre-cert 802.11n gear promise their gear will be fully firmware upgradeable; we’ll see.
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