February 4th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New update has been released for Inssider a free wardriving application that help penetration tester to check different wireless network available. The program is very useful as it provides information about the encryption used, vendor of the access point, SSID and the performance of the Wifi network coverage. Update release note include the following: ” [...]
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Tags: InSSIDer, penetration testing, Pentesting, wifi, Wireless Security 
No Comments » January 5th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Wireless network access points are everywhere so if you travel a lot you will find more than one AP at airports coffee shop or at the beach, I often try to scan different wireless network to check what type of encryption used by the AP owner (you can use InSSider) and as a result I [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting, Tools Tags: penetration, Pentest, Pentesting, Wireless Security 3 Comments » January 1st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Efficient Denial of service attacks on web application platform Web applications technologies including PHP, ASP.NET,Java, ColdFusion, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript and more are currently vulnerable to denial of service attack and in order to fix it you need to use a randomized hash function which CRuby 1.9 and Perl already do. As a workaround you can [...]
Posted in From the Web, News Tags: Anonnymous, News, Vulnerabilities & attacks, Vulnerability, Wireless Security No Comments » August 20th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tools for the first part may not be completed without SpoonWEP/SpoonWPA which firstly introduced in BackTrack3, this is also a part of aircrack-ng with a graphical interface allows pentester to take the same channel of the Access point and crack the security keys of the AP. Another very interesting tool is Karmetasploit which allows you [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Tools Tags: BackTrack, cracking 802.11 WEP, Security, Wireless Security, WLAN 11 Comments » August 1st, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In the past it has been very difficult to crack wireless network we should search for the right software under Linux distribution checking the necessary driver compatibility to inject the packet on the network and finally you get access to the Wi-Fi network, the question do we still have the same difficulties today? To answer [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Tools Tags: BackTrack, cracking 802.11 WEP, Security, Wireless Security, WLAN 11 Comments » July 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua WPA2 (Wireless Protected Access ver. 2.0) – is the second version of a set of algorithms and protocols that protect data in wireless networks. As expected, WPA2 should significantly increase the security of wireless networks Wi-Fi compared with previous technologies. The standard provides the mandatory use of more powerful encryption algorithm AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) [...]
June 21st, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The third edition of Security Acts Magazine has been issued. This number includes a small and hopefully interesting article I have submitted on the Wireless penetration testing (War driving). Wish you a happy reading! http://www.securityacts.com/securityacts03.pdf make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Posted in Security Magazine Tags: Security, Security Acts, War-driving, Wireless Security 12 Comments »
