TechDuke

After confronting a war driver once, I asked him, “Why do you do it?”

America’s laws and law enforcement agencies have taught us that rarely is a crime committed without a motive.

Cell phones have had a slight advantage over other types of wireless communications in the security realm.

The IEEE, which is an acronym for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the group that created all the 802 standards.

On November 4, 2003, Robert Moskowitz found out that WPA and 802.11i suffer from an offline dictionary attack.

Many wireless gateways use several means of authentication.

When Michael came out, a need to prevent message modification attacks was built into it.

The 802.1x protocol had experienced a number of vulnerabilities when the industry decided to adapt it to wireless.

RADIUS uses a shared secret to communicate between a RADIUS server and a RADIUS device or client.

Cisco LEAP has a number of discovered vulnerabilities.

After the initial weaknesses of WEP were in the media and out in front of all the IT people, some of them started using MAC filtering as an interim solution until a standardized one was created.

We will take a look at denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against wireless.

WEP has undergone major scrutiny and subsequently failed all three tenets of its original design.

Many firewalls use a technique called network address translation

Unlike cabled networks, wireless networks don’t need a hub or switch.

One of the most important differences between using an isolated computer

A network is nothing more than two or more computers

Windows stores information about user accounts and security groups in a security database

Windows distinguishes two types of access privileges: permissions and rights.

In compensation for its incompatibility with Windows 9x

Sometimes it can be useful to monitor the changes that take place in your registry

The primary tool in Windows Vista for working directly with the registry is Registry Editor.

Internet Explorer is extraordinarily customizable.

File system choices available to you depend on the type of media you are formatting.

When anything vexes you in Windows, the direct solution is usually to turn it off.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. military space system operated by the U.S. Air Force.

The GSM security model is based on a shared secret that is located

Laptops are the devices people most commonly picture when they think of wireless LAN end devices.