Security for 802.11 wireless networks.

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Wifi login redirect applications

This may sound a bit naive questions as i am a beginner. But I do my best to put it into words. You may have experience when sometimes you want to use the internet in a cafe for example (with your ...
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Low level attacks on WLAN/LAN connection while connected to VPN

Is it really secure to connect to a (well-secured) VPN server over an unencrypted WLAN connection (or maybe a hotel Ethernet)? I know, that there have been questions like this - but I'm not asking ...
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Designing and managing a captive portal

I'd like to learn more about how a captive portal works, especially the management system regarding usage, security monitoring, billing, security architecture etc. Does anybody know any good ...
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Wireless Access Point security with TEW-638APB

We have a large network that is private, with both eithernet and Wifi access. We'd like to make another smaller network that is wireless, open, and possibly throttled, and not able to access our ...
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Cracking a wpa2-psk wifi

I'm cracking a wpa2-psk wifi with aircrack-ng. After popullating the *cap file I'll apply brute-force with john. The question is: What time is it recommend to run airodump-ng before killing it's ...
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Turn Binary Data into Airborne Packets? [closed]

Are there any software libraries and/or wireless drivers that make it possible to turn a sequence of binary data into a wireless packet in the air? For example, if someone used Airpcap/Wireshark to ...
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Four-way Handshake in WPA-Personal (WPA-PSK)

Can someone explain to me in what consists the Four-way Handshake in WPA-Personal (WPA with Pre-Shared Key), which informations are being sent between AP and client, how is it possible to find the AP ...
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Can wifi administrator see data transfer over android phone. precisely gmail app communication

sometimes I connect to wifi outside my home in office , restaurants and friends house. I want to know if wifi administrator can see the exact data my android phone communicates? I am only concerned ...
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Is it possible to change the wifi password with a script?

I was wondering if it is possible to change the password for a wifi with a script instead of having to log-in to the routers firmware?
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Does Kismac 0.3.3 (0.3.3) work on Mac OSX 10.8.2

Does Kismac 0.3.3 (0.3.3) built on February 7th work on Mac OSX 10.8.2 It doesn't seem to scan for me. Both are the latest versions as of today.
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Wireless Adapters for Testing with BackTrack

I would like to begin testing and working with BackTrack. I have heard that the Alfa AWUS036H wireless adapter works well with BackTrack and allows for packet injection. This adapter, however, is ...
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What is the best way to protect a captive portal againt MAC spoofing

What is the best way to protect a captive portal againt MAC spoofing? The MAC Address appears one of the only ways to distinguish wireless clients from one another, anything one authenticated client ...
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How to securely set up wifi? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to secure a WiFi network? It seems like a simple question but I've thought about this for a while and have done quite a bit of Google searching. There's a LOT of ...
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Wifi WPA cracking with reaver

Hello! This question for anyone who tried or succeeded to crack wifi wpa/wpa2 keys with backtrack linux and reaver. So, I wanted to test on my wifi router. I started everything as described here. But ...
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WPS vulnerability scanning for handshakes to detect the attack

I was able to sniff the EAP packets from the attacker machine with a wireless card on p-mode, however i was not able to sniff this data off the user using the same card under windows. Wireshark, did ...
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Is a VPN the only way to protect against rogue Wifi access points MITM attacks?

Given that it's very easy set up a rogue access point and MITM that connection, is a VPN to a trusted host the only real way to secure my browsing and other TCP/UDP actions? This question relates to ...
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Is this possible to use fake AP to get wpa keys? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to speed up WPA/WPA2-PSK cracking using a rogue AP? Is it possible to get the WPA preshared key with a fake AP with the same SSID ?
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how to make a web based system that connects only the authorized user in the wi-fi access [closed]

this is for our thesis project. we proposed to study the Wi-Fi security in most related to the users.
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How to find out the Chaff packets of WEP?

I have a cap file in which i have lots of 802.11 packets encrypted with WEP key. The problem is lots of Chaff packets of WEP is included in that. I want to remove the Chaff packets and crack the key. ...
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Is the GTK or MIC in the unencrypted portion of a WPA protected frame?

In order to decrypt traffic you must have all 4 portions of the WPA Handshake. In WPA protected data frames, is there an unencrypted portion of that frame that has some sort of identifiable value to ...
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How can connect two wireless modems and access point without using wire? [closed]

I have WiMax modem with wireless and have a linksys Access point WAP54G. How can I connect the router on WiMax Modem with Wifi. I dont want use any wire and disable first modem wireless to connect I ...
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WLAN Router authentification [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I ensure that I connect to the right wireless Access Point? Is it true, that WLAN routers aren't authenticated by clients? The only "authentication" is SSID and ...
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How can I configure my router to prevent connections bypassing it?

I am trying to configure my router to control access for several of my devices at home. I am currently using a linksys router. Our home consists of three devices (a desktop, a laptop, and a ...
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How to know all the Connected devices to my Access Point including Phones [closed]

I need to list all the connected devices in my AP wireless network including mobile phones, also if it possible to know more information about each device, I am using Windows 7 and my access point is ...
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HTML payload rewriting?

I read an article about some hotel injection ads to every webpage using some router: http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/ Would it be possible to do this with any existing ...
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Was WPS fixed (wifi)?

Rumors says that WPS bruteforce vuln doesn't work on never devices, now you have to brute all 10^7 pins. Is that true?
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Is Wi-Fi Protected Setup still safe? [closed]

According to this paper it is cracked: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf Using Reaver.
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What are the methods to crack WPA and WPA2? [closed]

Is there any method other than brute force and dictionary attacks to break WPA and WPA2?
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Standard algorithm for WEP key generator 64-bit [closed]

I have downloaded the following function from the internet. It's a WEP Key generator for 64-bit from a giving passphrase. and I m wondering if a such algorithm is a standard algorithm? or it's an ...
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How to use phone's Wifi tethering to demonstrate security vulnerabilities on phones [closed]

I am teaching a course to highschool students about computers, and I wanted to do something different for tomorrow class. I was thinking to teach them about wifi security vulnerabilities through a ...
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Insecure community network connection problems [closed]

I live at an apartment complex which provided free wifi. My problem is I cannot get a good signal in my bedroom. In the living room my desktop (with a wifi Rosewill PCI-e adapter) gets an excellent ...

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