“Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds” is the title of a paper by Erik Tews, Andrei Pychkine and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, three cryptographic researchers at the cryptography and computer algebra group at the technical university Darmstadt in Germany.
For those new to wireless LAN security and WEP cracking, WEP’s weaknesses have been known since [...]

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A rogue wireless station is an unauthorized station connected to a network via an access point. The access point used for connectivity can either be a rogue access point or an authorized access point.
Unless the security of the wireless network is very weak, it can be assumed that a rogue access point also exists and [...]

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A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack occurs when an attacker inserts himself between two devices and is able to read, insert, modify messages between the two devices.
The most difficult part of a MITM attack in wired networks is getting in the middle without being detected. Usually this requires physical access to the network increasing the [...]

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Below is the opening sentence from Wikipedia’s entry for “phishing”.
In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
The most common example of phishing are emails crafted to look [...]

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Wireless LAN security for residential users is mainly about using the proper encryption.
For corporate networks, securing against rogue access points is also important. Rogue access points are access points that are connected to corporate networks without prior approval from network administrators.
In many cases, these rogue access points are connected to company LANs by end [...]

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I spend my day shift working on wireless local area network (WLAN) security related issues so a “How to secure your wireless network” post has always been on my list of post topics. Instead of creating a list from scratch I decided to survey what was already out there and try to post more of [...]

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