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As more and more businesses move from legacy wireless security models, attackers are looking for new techniques to exploit wireless networks. One technique that is rapidly gaining popularity is to exploit vulnerabilities in wireless network drivers.
Most users and security managers are not aware of the security threats posed by outdated wireless drivers. Vulnerabilities in wireless [...]
Bluetooth technology is great. No doubt. It provides an easy way for a wide range of mobile devices to communicate with each other without the need for cables or wires. However, despite its obvious benefits, it can also be a potential threat for the privacy and security of Bluetooth users (remember Paris Hilton?).
If you are [...]
WEP, or Wired Equivalent Privacy, is the default protocol used for securing wireless LANs. It uses the RC4 stream to encrypt data which is transmitted over the air, using usually a single secret key - the WEP key - of a length of 40 or 104 bit.
aircrack-ptw is a WEP key cracking tool that utilizes [...]
WirelessKeyView is a free utility to recover all wireless keys (WEP and WPA) stored on your computer. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. WirelessKeyView supports both Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration service and Windows Vista WLAN AutoConfig service.
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