WEP cracked in practice
AirSnort is the practical-public WEP-key recovery tool I predicted in my January list. Six weeks of testing has confirmed it works. A walk through what changes for wireless deployments.
Notes from the field
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Long-form thinking on cyber defence, detection, and resilience — from Slackware-era honeypots through to AI-driven SOC analytics.
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First wireless probe: capturing 802.11b traffic
I picked up a wireless card and spent a weekend learning what an attacker actually sees on a wireless network. The toolchain is rough; the results are sobering. A first writeup before next year's WEP analysis becomes routine.
Wireless networking, and why I am thinking about it now
802.11b wireless equipment has dropped in price enough that I am seeing it deployed casually. The security model is fragile in ways that the marketing material does not mention. A first-pass survey of what defenders need to know.