802.11b Honeypots Open for Business

11thangel writes "SecurityFocus is running a story about a wireless honeypot project, being run by the SAIC. The setup consists of 5 Cisco access points in the Washington D.C. area, with two extra antennas (high gain omni's) plugged in. The network itself has a bunch of comps with various vulnerabilities, similar to a traditional honeypot. At the present, the network doesn't have a net connection, but the administrator is considering hooking it through a web proxy that would add a consent-to-monitor banner, so he can watch who's doing what. Time to find a WiFi card that can MAC-hop."

Comments

Honeypots

[rustycage]

O' bother.

Re:Our Nation's Capital

[Anonymous Coward]

You need to hang out in "Cyberpunkia", it's a hidden area (cloaked) in DC, reachable only by a special hidden stop on the Metro (between Tenleytown and Van Ness). When the train reaches the half way point (where it turns a bit), you need to do an emergency train stop, open the door, and enter the hidden door (open it with your laptop). I know it sounds kinda complicated, but once you do it once, it's easy to do again.

Re:*sigh*

[Oculus Habent]

Just one example of why 802.11 isn't really an ideal protocol for public networks.

802.11 isn't a service or a communications protocol, it's a network layer. This is like complaining that 100 base-T doesn't have a MOTD

Brand new MOTD for cat5e! Just enter the message you want with this 1Hz binary input rocker switch, and in just minutes (depending on message length and encoding*) you can improperly interrupt network communications with a hardware-layer message.

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