Aircrack-ng 1.6 - Complete Suite Of Tools To Assess WiFi Network Security

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security. It focuses on different areas of WiFi security: Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools. Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and...

Protect

Multiple vulnerabilities, referred to as Dragonblood, exist in WiFi WPA3 standard implementation...

Smart TVs: The Cyberthreat Lurking in Your Living Room, Feds Warn

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales of smart TVs are likely prodigious this Thanksgiving weekend – but consumers need to be aware of the hole they can punch in home cyber-defenses. That’s the word from the FBI, which warned that smart TVs, which hook up to the internet to allow users to access ap...

Default credentials

AutoPi Wi-Fi/NB and 4G/LTE devices before 2019-10-15 allows an attacker to perform a brute-force attack or dictionary attack to gain access to the WiFi network, which provides root access to the device. The default WiFi password and WiFi SSID are derived from the same hash function output input i...

CVE-2018-9581

CVE-2018-9581 describes an information-disclosure flaw in Android where WiFi RSSI (and SSID) data are broadcast via intents (android.net.wifi.RSSI_CHANGE and android.net.wifi.STATE_CHANGE). This cross-process leakage can allow any on-device app to observe a user’s proximity/location context witho...

Hackuna - The First Mobile App to Track Hackers

Cryptors, a cyber security company, invented a mobile app called HACKUNA Anti-Hack that can block and detect these WiFi hackers. The exciting part here is, you can also track the hackers within the area. It will give you all the details you need to find the hacker within the area or to report it ...

Post-Perimeter Security: Addressing Evolving Mobile Enterprise Threats

In the era of the cloud, enterprises house sensitive corporate data outside of the traditional perimeter; employees can access this from any endpoint, including mobile devices, and from any network. This presents a host of new challenges for companies looking to protect their sensitive informatio...

Connected camera cock up

I haven’t touched adult toy security for over a year now, mostly because we kept finding the same stuff over and over again. Besides, @internetofdongs has been doing some great work in this space, so it seemed pointless to duplicate his efforts. However, this morning, @dcuthbert tweeted us this: ...

Hacking the Echo echo echo

Smart home assistant. Not-so-smart TV Amazon Echo is considered pretty secure in the security community. Remote exploitation is a pipe dream, requiring months of research to stand any chance. But what about using other devices in the home to exploit it instead? Working on a smart Samsung TV and a...

Orange Livebox Router Information Exposure

The remote installation of Orange Livebox is prone to an information exposure vulnerability. The webserver leaks the WiFi security protocol, SSID, and password in plain text. Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are...

Aircrack-ng 1.5 - Complete Suite Of Tools To Assess WiFi Network Security

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security. It focuses on different areas of WiFi security: Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools. Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and...

New APIs Suggest WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Support Coming Soon to Windows 10

Windows 10 users don't have to wait much longer for the support of latest WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, a new blog post from Microsoft apparently revealed. The third version of Wi-Fi Protected Access, in-short WPA3, is the next generation of the wireless security protocol that has been designed t...

Aircrack-ng 1.4 - Complete Suite Of Tools To Assess WiFi Network Security

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security. It focuses on different areas of WiFi security: Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools. Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and...

A week in security (August 27 – September 2)

Last week, we looked at dubious antics in mobile land, a peculiar case of spam on the official Cardi B website, and we deep dived into fileless malware. We also explored the inner workings of Hidden Bee, and gave an explainer of Regex. Other cybersecurity news: Huge data breach affects Chinese...

ThreatList: A Ranking of Airports By Riskiest WiFi Networks

With time to spare at an airport, fliers don’t think twice about cracking open their laptops and taking advantage of one of many free WiFi hotspots. But they should, warns Coronet. Coronet, which sells wireless network security products, recently published its list of best and worst airport WiFi...

The vulnerability of the WPA2 protocol, related to errors in managing STK-keys, allows access to encrypted information transmitted over a wireless network.

The vulnerability of the WPA2 protocol, which provides security for Wi-Fi wireless networks, is related to errors in the management of cryptographic keys. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a perpetrator within the range of a Wi-Fi network to gain access to encrypted information transmitted ove...

The vulnerability of the WPA2 protocol, which stems from errors in managing the cryptographic keys, allows unauthorized access to encrypted information transmitted over a wireless network.

The vulnerability of the WPA2 protocol, which provides security for Wi-Fi wireless networks, is related to errors in the management of cryptographic keys. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a perpetrator within the range of a Wi-Fi network to gain access to encrypted information transmitted ove...

wpa_supplicant: Reinstallation of the group key in the 4-way handshake

A new exploitation technique called key reinstallation attacks KRACK affecting WPA2 has been discovered. A remote attacker within Wi-Fi range could exploit this attack to decrypt Wi-Fi traffic or possibly inject forged Wi-Fi packets by reinstalling a previously used group key GTK during a 4-way...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-13088

Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA and WPA2 that support 802.11v allows reinstallation of the Integrity Group Temporal Key IGTK when processing a Wireless Network Management WNM Sleep Mode Response frame, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay frames from access points to clients...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13078

Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA and WPA2 allows reinstallation of the Group Temporal Key GTK during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay frames from access points to clients...