Hacking 802.11b WEP
Found this article that details the tools and proceedure to hacking 802.11b (and I assume it should be the same for 802.11g) wireless networks. Granted, the author was flooding the wireless channels with ping requests to generate massive amounts of wireless traffic, but that is just a best case scenario. With a long enough data dump of "keep alive" requests from the client, you can always end up getting enough to crack even a 4 key rotating 128-bit WEP.

This is a very interesting look at wireless security and how to approach it. I still think that stealthed SSID's, MAC Filtering and 128-bit WEP is going to protect 99.99% of us (unless I'm your next door neighbor...grin). And even then, not file sharing stuff you don't want out there is the next best thing (secure your intranet). Hell, someone would have to be roving the neighborhood looking for stealthed SSID's (which I've heard of people doing), but more likely, it is a neighbor that detects your non-stealthed SSID that would be most attacks. Just watch your front walk and realize that they have to be pretty close to even get the packets over the wireless. In fact, I may take my laptop and see just how far I can detect my own wireless network...

- posted by Jeff @ 6:32 AM | 0 comments