As an aside form talking about the Electron Gnomes on the latest Embedded FM podcast Elecia and Christopher implored us to talk to people about their awesome podcast to everyone we know.
So, go and listen to the Embedded FM Podcast featuring excellent interviews , professional advice and something about Electron Gnomes.
Reading: Little Brother
5th post
Okay it isn't, that attack is awesome, but it is a social one rather than a break of WPA. I bet it would work in a load of environments, I would be surprised if pentesters didn't already have it in their toolkits.
Really the OS should be doing much more to protect users from this class of attacks. WPA written today would not be vulnerable to this class of attack at all.
Reading: The Puzzle Palace, 802.11 Wireless Networks 2nd Edition, Packet Captures
I read this awesome review of hackmud , it made me think of other games about hacking or games that involve actual hacking.
I have only played Uplink and TIS-100, I have heard the others are pretty great. You should play them and tell me how they are.
There are reports of Malware in the PS Vita Piracy scene. When you have to pursue shady enterprises to use the hardware you own this is always the risk you take. Consoles have the coolest security hardware, but it is aimed at stopping piracy rather than protecting users.
The Grey area jailbreak tools live in make it really hard for users to find the real tools. Instead the end up with malware.
Here is 50 minutes on why this was going to happen.
Reading: The Puzzle Palace
I managed my first SO-50 pass yesterday. Using a tape measure 70cm yagi I made last year and my baofeng I was able to hear chatter on the repeater for about 30 seconds.
As mediocre as it is I am really happy with success on my first try, I did attempt to listen to another pass of SO-50, but only heard a two second chirp. I used gpredict on my stream 7 for satellite tracking, and a cheap compass app on android to verify which way the building pointed.
Next I am going to try using an sdr for the downlink capture. I am hoping it will be a little easier to get the yagi pointed the correct way and give me a chance of finding the signal mid pass.