Hey everybody, sorry it's been like a month since my last post, which is way too long, but don't give up hope; I will always be here to hack away, and will never just quit posting (unless in a sad event I am killed and thus can no longer post, but you already knew that :/ ). 
    In the meantime, I've been just busy enjoying the summer, and reading LOTS of manuals, and books, from everything JavaScript to using the Processing language to interface with virtual COM port data. Also, a little bit of driving around town has led me to a (hardly) epic discovery. It's about the belkin router crashing exploit that I told you guys about a while ago, where, when you had access to an unsecured belkin router, you just enter a formatted URL that crashes the login program, and ultimately the entire router. Bye-bye internet.
   What I didn't know is that this exploit pretty much works on any belkin router, because the problem is that they use the same web interface on nearly all their routers, including the basic programs that come with it. A flaw in proprietary coding. So, to a certain extent, this is a pretty big thing, because people could just  go wardriving around, crashing any unsecure, or poorly secured (Who uses WEP anymore???) Belkin routers ( For goodness sake, don't use the default router name!).
 


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CoreSchemer
08/28/2009 22:47

Well, WPA(1) has been cracked as well, assuming that it's using TKIP, so it's not much better in any case. WPA(1) AES, & WPA(2) are fine though...

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09/02/2009 20:17

Yes, I agree completely, as I use WPA2 myself, and have placed a passphrase for router configuration.

I think people are finally becoming more educated about the danger of disregarding security, as many of the access points where I live (around 80%) are at least protected with WPA. But I still see WEP around, and even worse, none at all. :/

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CoreSchemer
09/03/2009 07:24

Depends on the situ honestly; if you live in the middle of no where, I would be more concerned about physical security than someone using my wifi. Then again, I've worked with broker-dealers that have 0 security, and exist in an office building. 5 computers, 25 MACs on the network, leaving 19 unknown machines (one network printer). It's all about risk, balancing your threats versus your needs & mitigating vulnerabilities.

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09/03/2012 18:12

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