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Detecting 802.11 Discovery Apps

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-the-backdoor dept.

Joshua Wright writes "I have written a white paper on detecting 802.11 Wireless LAN Network Discovery applications. Wireless LAN discovery through the use of applications such as NetStumbler, DStumbler, Wellenreiter and others is an increasingly popular technique for network penetration. The discovery of a wireless LAN might be used for seemingly innocuous Internet access, or to be used as a "backdoor" into a network to stage an attack. This paper reviews some of the tactics used in wireless LAN network discovery and attempts to identify some of the fingerprints left by wireless LAN discovery applications, focusing on the MAC and LLC layers. This fingerprint information can then be incorporated into intrusion detection tools capable of analyzing data-link layer traffic. "

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  1. Re:Kickin' It Ole School by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    j00 g07 frost pist d00d

  2. Hackers and Slackers by First_In_Hell · · Score: -1, Troll
    What a waste! Once again companies are going to spend millions policing and monitoring this stuff, and quite frankly, what does it have to do with their core business? Look at Anti-Virus software . . . that business is huge if you do not have some sort of client running . . you are DEAD. Our corporate virus server gets 50+ viruses a day (all from marketing and sales' e-mails)

    At my company, we spent thousands alone to monitor web access. You know what happened? We just ended up firing people we already knew did nothing anyway (some interesting reading in those logs though).

    Then the jackasses downloaded some patch to get by it. Then the IT department (us) had to come up with a fix for that, and so on. It just ended up wasting time when no real work is geting done.

    Sorry to go off on a tangent, but it looks like this is another case of stupid ass people (being it hackers or slackers) eating up business' time and momey when it could be spent doing something real.

    By next year there will be devices on the market just for sniffing out these intruders, just like Macafee charges $25,000 for their firewall solution.

  3. Re:Wierd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's because the strap-on feels good on her clit.