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Wi-Fi Exploits Coming to Metasploit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wi-fi-sploitz dept.

bucksDrop writes "Eweek.com is reporting that the Metasploit Project will add 802.11 (Wi-Fi) exploits to a new version of its point-and-click attack tool. Metasploit 3 will integrate kernel-mode payloads to allow users to use existing user-mode payloads for both kernel and non-kernel exploits. Metasploit is collaborating with Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch and implementing it by wrapping the LORCON library."

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  1. This begs the question... by mohjlir · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why don't hardware vendors simply release the source to their drivers so problems like this can be squashed quickly? Of course, there is no guarantee that the white hats will find problems before the black hats do, but it exposes flaws more eyeballs.