Wow! There is some GREAT content in there, not just the theory of the attacks/defenses but the application as well and I actually learned something I never knew before:"The AP inserts the data supplied by the station in the Association Request into a table called the association table that the AP maintains in its memory. The IEEE 802.11 specifies a maximum value of 2007 concurrent associations to an AP. The actual size of this table varies among different models of APs. When this table overflows, the AP would refuse further clients.Having cracked WEP, an attacker authenticates several non-existing stations using legitimate-looking but randomly generated MAC addresses. The attacker then sends a flood of spoofed associate requests so that the association table overflows.Enabling MAC filtering in the AP will prevent this attack."
O_o... Considering this has got a lot of useful information on how to prevent attacks... your theory doesn't hold up.If it was a 'dark hacker howto destroy people's wifi networks' with no info on preventing, just attacking then maybe it could stand up as a ploy to get IPs of those interested... but this is an Honest article to help PREVENT attacks and contains information useful to any Computer tech looking for security tips.
stoopsJul 16, 2006
Wow! There is some GREAT content in there, not just the theory of the attacks/defenses but the application as well and I actually learned something I never knew before:"The AP inserts the data supplied by the station in the Association Request into a table called the association table that the AP maintains in its memory. The IEEE 802.11 specifies a maximum value of 2007 concurrent associations to an AP. The actual size of this table varies among different models of APs. When this table overflows, the AP would refuse further clients.Having cracked WEP, an attacker authenticates several non-existing stations using legitimate-looking but randomly generated MAC addresses. The attacker then sends a flood of spoofed associate requests so that the association table overflows.Enabling MAC filtering in the AP will prevent this attack."
nikokunJul 16, 2006
O_o... Considering this has got a lot of useful information on how to prevent attacks... your theory doesn't hold up.If it was a 'dark hacker howto destroy people's wifi networks' with no info on preventing, just attacking then maybe it could stand up as a ploy to get IPs of those interested... but this is an Honest article to help PREVENT attacks and contains information useful to any Computer tech looking for security tips.
djnickJul 16, 2006
grab the backtrack distro, read the tutorials and crack AP's in minutes. I cracked all the 2 wire routers in my area in less than 30 mins
mzx639Jul 16, 2006
Use WPA, end of story.
madformadnessJul 20, 2006
Just do not use the password:"ADMIN" and you will alot safer.