ethicalhacker.net — It's been 3 months since the last article / tutorial by wireless guru, Dan Hoffman of 'Live Hacking Video' fame, and boy was it worth the wait. As always, he takes you step-by-step through some awesome wireless hacks and then shows you how to protect yourself from them. This will make you think twice before firing up your laptop in Starbucks!
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sdnick484Jul 21, 2006
It has amazed me for years how many people actually connect to public hot spots. If you're tunneling through a VPN you'll probably be alright (you're still vulnerable to rouge AP's and MITM attacks), but a good portion of people aren't bothering with any level of encryption. I think it'd be a cool idea for a coffee shop to have a projector connected to a PC running driftnet, dsniff, or webspy (similar to what they do at defcon); maybe when someone sees their entire session being displayed on the wall they'd wake up.
aarslankJul 21, 2006
A really easy way to figure out if the wi-fi provider page is being phished: just enter a wrong username and password at first. If it doesn't warn you about your password being wrong you know it is fake.
blackb0xJul 21, 2006
just use tor.
azwethinkweizmJul 21, 2006
Cool and illegal?It's still illegal and it's not worthy of my digg.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2006
"Cool and Illegal language huh??"Illegal, yes. Cool.... No. User blocked. ;p
t3hxJul 22, 2006
Internode hotspot network in Adelaide - free to port 80 for non-members, to internode subscribers, free to the whole net.Internode are awesome.
mochajoeAug 15, 2006
As a promotion of illegal activity, I would agree with you. However, I did digg it as it is guideline to protect myself. In the same manner it shows how someone using WIFI can be hacked, one can use the reverse to prevent the hack from hitting you as he passes to easier targets. It may be impossible to prevent a hacker from hitting any of us individually. Good thing, they are not so selective.Generally, they are not targeting an individual. They target those systems that show vulnerabilities. It is like the old joke, "How fast do you have run to escape a charging Grizzly Bear?" The answer is that you don't; you just have to run faster the guy next to you.