Sometimes you don't need to know everything about wireless to secure a home or home-office network; you only need to know what's important.
Ars Technica's original Wireless Security Blackpaper was first published back in 2002, and in the intervening years it has been a great reference for getting the technical lowdown on different wireless security protocols. As a sequel to…
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The predator is a modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control.
From 192.168.11.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.11.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable 64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.90 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=3.50 ms 64 bytes…
Zeroshell 1.0.beta8 lets one physical radio support multiple logical SSIDs, each with a different encryption and authentication scheme, VLAN, and function (client/AP). http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7321889656.html
root@multi-AP root> wifi-manager [wifi0] Chipset AR5413 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) — If — Mode — SSID…
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