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Wi-Fi Penetration Tester In Your Pocket

Posted by kdawson on from the happy-to-see-me? dept.

00*789*00 writes "ZDNet has a story about the public launch of Immunity's Silica, a portable hacking device that can search for and join 802.11 (Wi-Fi) access points, scan other connections for open ports, and automatically launch code execution exploits from a built-in exploit platform."

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  1. What I like to do... by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... is leave dozens of wireless routers lying around, switched on, broadcasting trivially encrypted 'networks' to the surroundings - except not have anything connected to them. No internet, no servers, no ethernet cable, nothing.

    The real network is hidden, strongly encrypted and using 802.11n. Beat that, hackers!

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