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Anti Stumbling Softwware in the Works
http://www.80211-planet.com/news/art...366721,00.htmlFULL ARTICLE
IBM Counters "Drive-by Hacking" with New Software By Clint Boulton Researchers in IBM's (NYSE:IBM) Hawthorne, N.Y. facility Monday said they have worked up new software that monitors 802.11 wireless networks and reports any security problems as soon as they are detected. A true "sniffer" product that ferrets out intrusions, the Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA) runs on desktop and laptop computers, minding wireless network security. If a breach is detected, the software program lets the central back-end servers know about it. Powered by Linux with a Windows version to come soon, the DWSA system pinpoints the location of rogue access points based on signal strength measurements by the wireless hardware on the clients. As long as at least three client machines report the signal strength of the rogue, their reports can be used by the system to calculate the access point location using the estimated ranges and geometry. The DWSA was created to combat such malicious methodologies as drive-by hacking, in which a perpetrator can access a WLAN from a moving car, or a park bench within reasonable distance to the facility in which the network resides. Hackers can pull crucial data from insecure networks using a laptop or personal digital assistant, and then quickly be on their way. <snip>
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Re: Anti Stumbling Softwware in the Works
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Good to see that some entity has the time and funding to endeavor this little fun project... though everything has its holes, even corks that are supposed to plug holes...  Can't wait to see the w32 version out there..
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Re: Re: Anti Stumbling Softwware in the Works
[quote]Originally posted by blackwave
[b] FYI: http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...&threadid=2289 Saw the other post after I sent this -- but looked in NEWS first! I almost posted it in WINDOWS myself out of habit . . .
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Re: Re: Re: Anti Stumbling Softwware in the Works
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