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BruCON 2010 : Day 0x1
After hearing a lot of great things about the first edition of BruCON (in 2009), I decided to attend the con this year. The fact that BruCON is gaining popularity and established a lot of recognition in the industry already, combined with the fact that it takes place in Brussels, Belgium (my home country), it […]
WPA TKIP cracked in a minute – time to move on to WPA2
Just a quick note to let you know that 2 Japanese scientists (from Hiroshima and Kobe Universities) have found a practical way to crack WPA TKIP in about one minute, using a technique called “Beck-Tews”. This technique is not new. It has been discovered by some Germans back in november, but was somewhat limited in […]
Backtrack 4 cheat sheet
Download backtrack from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html. Current version at the time of writing is BT4 Pre-Final.This document is based on BT4 pre-final. Ergo, some of the instructions below may not work with other versions of BT. FYI : An excellent guide about Backtrack4 can be found at BackTrack 4 – The Definitive Guide 1. Installing Backtrack […]
Cheatsheet : Cracking WPA2 PSK with Backtrack 4, aircrack-ng and John The Ripper
Basic steps : Put interface in monitor mode Find wireless network (protected with WPA2 and a Pre Shared Key) Capture all packets Wait until you see a client and deauthenticate the client, so the handshake can be captured Crack the key using a dictionary file (or via John The Ripper) I’ll use a Dlink […]
Cheatsheet : Cracking WEP with Backtrack 4 and aircrack-ng
I know, there a probably already a zillion number of websites that show how to crack WEP. So I guess this will be website zillion+1 learning how to audit your own WEP security. To be honest, the main reason I’m putting this info on this blog because I just wanted it as a quick reference- […]
IP Autotuning in Vista
At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window and the number of bytes available to send. Without using TCP window scaling (which is disabled by default in previous versions of Windows), the maximum receive window a receiver can advertise is 64K bytes. […]