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Wireless Security Testing Manual Available

Posted by timothy on from the checklist dept.

the_pete writes "The new OSSTMM WIRELESS 2.9 has gone live at www.osstmm.org and includes tests for most things wireless from RFID tags to 802.11 networks and back to Bluetooth. We began separating out the sections from the OSSTMM 2.1 because the 3.0 draft was looking big and we found most people used it to test specific areas. So we threw together all the notes we had so far for the Wireless Testing Section and formatted it nicely. It's not quite 3.0 but it's getting there. And if there's a wireless device we don't cover you can always contribute your ideas, skills, and knowledge."

6 comments

  1. Good testing plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    FP btw, this looks good. Great work!

  2. Not important? by Carnildo · · Score: 1

    Three hours and no serious posts? Is wireless security really that unimportant to people?

    Admittedly, my idea of securing a wireless network is to run Ethernet or fiber optic cables, but still, this seems like something people would care about.

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    1. Re:Not important? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We'll I for one like it. You really did a good job. But in reply to your post, I think that in this day and age we've seen wireless security done so poorly that it is no looked at as unfixable. Its fixable but all linksys, dlink, microsoft, etc were just too lazy to do it right.

    2. Re:Not important? by G4from128k · · Score: 1

      Its now been 3 days and there are only 5 comments. And people wonder why Bill Gates says that "you don't need perfect code for security." Bill knows that nobody cares, so why spend time on security.

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  3. At risk of being modded by jptechnical · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone subscribe or put this into regular use? I see alot of information but it is a bit beyond my scope. Are there any security manuals or best practices focused to small biz or SOHO anyone has had success with?

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