| The hacking conference Defcom always throws up some interesting stuff. Makezine has some coverage. MAKE: Blog: @ DEFCON - The wall of sheep is a public name and shame projection of people at the conference who had sent IDs and Passwords in clear over any of the wireless networks. This should be a warning to anyone who uses public WiFi hotspots without using a VPN or SSL encrypted POP3 and SMTP email. This stuff is not hard and you should demand POP3S and SMTPS from your local sysadmin. Or just use Gmail. This has the added benefit of being able to send email from anywhere as the SMTPS port is virtually always open. What perhaps is hard is web sites who use a password but don't use SSL. Generally, the password is low security, but to hide yourself you really need an encrypted link to a secure proxy server which is beyond the reach of most users. This was collected via The Janus 6 Wi-Fi card 0wning station A PC with enough cards in it to track 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth across all the channels and then log, sniff and interpret the results. RFID World record attempt managed to read an RFID tag at 65 feet. Which is nothing compared with getting a 30mW unamplified wifi card to pass data across 125 miles. Perhaps the best bit was Hotel Room TV hacking. A vulnerability in many hotel television infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain guests' names and their room numbers from the billing system. It can also let someone read the e-mail of guests who use web mail through the TV [from: JB Ecademy] |
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