If you have read our recent Internet Security Report you will see there is a rise in probe requests over public Wi-Fi. Penetration testing tools are getting more sophisticated, it’s becoming easier for cyber criminals to eavesdrop and steal personal information from people over Wi-Fi. If we look at the original Mark I pineapple from Hak5 when it was first released, it was … [Read more...]
Ruckus (Commscope) Access Points Put to The Hackers’ Test
Did they pass? You’ll have to read on to find out... Ruckus, which is now a part of Commscope via acuquisition in 2018, came into the business-class Wi-Fi market in 2002 with a disruptive antenna design. At the time, the antenna technology was quite novel and utilized multiple electrically-steerable antenna arrays to focus signal to desired targets such as laptops or mobile … [Read more...]
How To Stop Wi-Fi Hackers Abusing Ubiquiti’s UniFi Access Points
Ubiquiti, a global networking technology company came onto the mainstream marketplace beginning in 2005 with a clever idea of offering products at low prices to mass markets guiding channel players to monetize their services instead of the hardware. Every strategy has its pluses and minuses and some would say Ubiquiti’s low-price leader concept swung the pendulum too far, … [Read more...]
Meraki’s Air Marshal Gets Help from a New WIPS Sheriff
Wi-Fi hacking is a hot topic, but one that’s plagued by ambiguous and often contradictory technical terminology. Luckily, the lack of common definitions for Wi-Fi threat vectors has actually produced a solution to the problem: the Trusted Wireless Environment. The Trusted Wireless Environment framework succinctly defines the six Layer 2 Wi-Fi hacks that affect nearly every … [Read more...]
Russian Wi-Fi Hacking – Evil Twin attacks EXPLAINED
News broke this week highlighting the use of a nearly two-decade old Wi-Fi hacking technique called an Evil Twin attack. Despite being a known attack vector, Evil Twin attacks remain difficult to prevent without the proper protections in place. In the following article, we’ll detail how Russian hackers used this technique to infiltrate Wi-Fi networks, and how to defend against … [Read more...]
