April 21 2004

• NetStumbler 0.4 and MiniStumbler 0.4 were released today.

April 20 2004

• The Trouble with Wireless (PCmag)

April 8 2004

• This just isn't turning out to be Cisco's week. Asleap was released recently.
  LEAP attack tool, that captures Challenge/Response packets and performs and off-line dictionary attack.
  josh Wright's website

April 7 2004

• Cisco warns of wireless security hole which is...
• A Default Username and Password in WLSE and HSE Devices... smart.

April 5 2004

• Hotspotter was released yesterday. From Max Moser, of Wellenreiter. "Hotspotter passively monitors the network for probe request frames toidentify the preferred networks of Windows XP clients, and will compare it to a supplied list of common hotspot network names. If the probed network name matches a common hotspot name, Hotspotter will act as an access point to allow the client to authenticate and associate."
• Wireless Computer Networks Are Increasingly Popular, and Easy Prey for Hackers
• Often I run across news sites that require 'registration', a friend pointed me to http://www.bugmenot.com It provides anonymous logins for news and other sites that want to harvest-your-surfing-habits-to-better-target-advertising-to-you, uh I mean register.

April 2 2004

• Specs for WLAN SIM cards proposed
• Wi-Fi signals turn up in some unexpected places - 77 networks, in 440 miles? (using wifi ability built into Windows, does that even count as wardriving?) they even jumped on one and browsed the web and sent email...