Now ones you do have enough packets, 64 bit WEP encryption can be cracked in no more than five minutes. As for 128 bit encryption, this might take a whole lot longer, since WPA with TKIP and AES encryption can takes months to crack.
My whole point is that you have some time to catch your […]
Entries from April 2006
Tips on Stopping Hackers and War Drivers (Part 5)
April 20th, 2006 · No Comments
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Tips on Stopping Hackers and War Drivers (Part 4)
April 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Now let’s put this all together to catch our hacker. First you are going through your daily routine of checking logs on your Kismet IDS server and you notice the same MAC address probing networks but not joining. Next you check your help tickets and notice that in one area of the building clients were […]
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Tips on Stopping Hackers and War Drivers (Part 3)
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Tip number five: Establish a Honey Pot. Give the Wardriver what they want, a network to hack. Take an access point connect it to a standalone switch with another junk computer connected to that switch. Name the SSID something sounding important like server WLAN and name the computer Database. Finally use a weak password or […]
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