In Through The Out Door » Wireless

Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal

stexas — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:00:15 +0000

Just show how Redmond cannot deal with the POWER of Android. They must buy of foreigners!

AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone’s Launch

stexas — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:55:59 +0000

AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone’s Launch This elaborates on why I dropped these fools; even if it cost me some money. It’s great to be liberated from ATT.

New Cloud-based Service Steals Wi-Fi Passwords

stexas — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:47:30 +0000

New Cloud-based Service Steals Wi-Fi Passwords

Future of WiMAX is Clear as Sprint, Clearwire close deal

stexas — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:17:43 +0000

Clear your mind, Clearwire and Sprint Nextel say, as they announce the completion of their merger of assets into the new Clearwire to deploy WiMAX across the US under the Clear brand name. Google, Intel, and others chipped in an expected $3.2 billion to fund the first phase. [From Future of WiMAX is Clear as [...]

Security experts reveal details of WPA hack

stexas — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:50:32 +0000

Martin Beck and Erik Tews have published details of their attacks on WPA wireless networks. The attack is essentially a variant of the chopchop attack used against WEP secured networks, which surfaced in early 2005 [From Security experts reveal details of WPA hack]

The Real Story On WPA’s Flaw

stexas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:43:23 +0000

“The reports earlier today on WPA’s TKIP key type being cracked were incorrect. I spoke at length with Erik Tews, the joint author of the paper that discloses a checksum weakness in TKIP that allows individual short packets to be decrypted without revealing the TKIP key. I wrote this up for Ars Technica with quite [...]

802.11n Is Here. Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise

stexas — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:25:22 +0000

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]

Airlines’ Sense and Sensibility for In-Flight Broadband

stexas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:24:35 +0000

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, a service [...]

Motorola WiMax Deployments on Track for 08

stexas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:20:40 +0000

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 September. They [...]

Hacking Online Banking

stexas — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:46:02 +0000

Hacking Online Banking and Credit Card Transactions – And How to Prevent It

WifiZoo – a Passive WiFi Information Gather

stexas — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:52:01 +0000

WifiZoo – a Passive WiFi Information Gather:

New WEP Attack: Caffe Latte Hits Client, Not Access Point

stexas — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:54 +0000

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

stexas — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:43:37 +0000

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?

Hacking Your Neighbour with Wireless Penetration Tools

stexas — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:54:01 +0000

TJX thieves exploited wireless

stexas — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:16:35 +0000

Report: TJX thieves exploited wireless insecurities