Wireless LAN vulnerability

Wireless default settings and related vulnerability list

Here you can find a list of default settings and reported vulnerabilities of wireless related soft and hardware. The list is sorted by vendor. The information has been collected from different sources. Securityfocus, Butraq, Manuals etc. Feel free to submit further details.

http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Wlan_defaults

How to crack a Wireless Network

http://www.topsight.net/article.php/20050615154352676
http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Router_sniff

How To Crack WEP – Part 1: Setup & Network Recon

Updated June 9, 2005

Introduction

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of articles have been written about the vulnerability of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), but how many people can actually break WEP encryption? Beginners to WEP cracking have often been frustrated by the many wireless cards available and their distribution-specific commands. And things are further complicated when the beginner is not familiar with Linux.

In this three part series, we will give you a step by step approach to breaking a WEP key. The approach taken will be to standardize as many variables as possible so that you can concentrate on the mechanics of WEP cracking without being hindered by hardware and software bugs. The entire attack is done with publicly available software and doesn't require special hardware—just a few laptops and wireless cards.

This first article will help you set up your wireless lab and guide you through the scanning portion of WEP cracking. After all, you will need to find and document the wireless networks before you can crack them. The second article will describe the stimulation of the target WLAN to generate traffic and the actual process of capturing data and cracking the WEP key. After reading these two articles, you should be able to break WEP keys in a matter of minutes. A third article will turn things around and describe how to defend against multiple skill levels of wireless intruders

NOTES:

• A description of the basic approach and techniques used in this How To can be found in The Feds can own your WLAN too.

• You don't need to be a networking expert to successfully follow this How To, but you need basic familiarity with networking terminology and principles. You should know how to ping, open a Windows Command Prompt, enter command lines and know your way around the Windows networking properties screens.

Introduction
What you Need
What you Need – more
Lab Setup – Preparing the Target WLAN
Lab Setup – AP
Lab Setup – Preparing the Notebooks
Network Recon with Kismet
Network Recon with Kismet – more
Conclusion

Networking

Links to Netgear Support on M814 Series: http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N100651.asp

Memory Tweaks and optimization

Windows 2000: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cook/Memory.htm
Making your computer to run fast: http://www.mdgx.com/w2k.htm

Linux and Unix

Gento Linux: http://www.gentoo.org/
Novell and Linux : http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html
Fedura Redhat Linux: http://fedora.redhat.com/

Rdriv.sys Trojan virus

This is a forum from geekstogo.com.Check this out, it might be able to help you against that blipping trojan. The url: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51538.
Here is also the Symantec version of removing the infection:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.nlx.html
Here's another forum of people who found symantec a bit crappy in solving this virus problem and found other ways instead.: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13287635?hilite=rdriv+sys+virus

Distributing VOIP throughout the home

One obstacle to replacing traditional phone service with Voice over IP is that for your existing home phone jacks to work, it's necessary to make a change to your inside telephone wiring.

Fortunately, this change is very easy to make. In some cases it's as simple as removing a plug from a jack. Still, a basic understanding of how telephone wiring works is useful before attempting to make such a switch.
URL: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

Medtech - Linksys PAP2 Upgrade

This site is used to do an upgrade of your Gateway Box. Make sure before doing the upgrade your gateway box is on the same network or router with the computer you are going to use in upgrading your gateway box.

This is the address: http://pap2.rgns.net/

For any problem call your technical support for assistance: 604-231-4432

Memory Dump - Learning what is it

URL: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192463
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 192463 - This article describes how to gather more information about a blue-screen error message. Note that these steps may not always provide conclusive answers and may only be a symptom of another problem.

Wade through these informations it might help you in yur quest to get rid of that blue screen of death.

1. another source of information: http://labmice.techtarget.com/troubleshooting/memorydumps.htm

2. Forum: http://www.winportal.com/chat_sin.asp?ObjectID=11363

3. Enabling Kernel memory dump: http://www.mcci.com/mcci-v3/l4_sup_howto_w2k-kdump.html

4. This is another interesting info I got. This guy is telling that the possible reason of this memory dump is the creative souncard. If you are going to take it off, it will help the computer to regain back its health. Here's what he says:
If you have a creative soundcard installed.take it out! thats your problem.
Something to do with emu10k1f.sys file.
Get a different manufactured card all together.
Link: http://forums.kisland.com/read.php?f=4&i=815&t=686

5. Here is another suggestion: if you can enter windows get into the properties and then turn off the fast write on your graphic card. in my case SMART GART(tm). I HOPE THAT WILL WORK BYE. Link: http://forums.kisland.com/read.php?f=4&i=891&t=686

6. Use the MSConfig of Windows 98 to stop suspected programs that cause the hang-ups. See link: http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=19722

7. Registry tweakings, spyware removal, checking of ram if seated properly are other suggestions which can help you. See this link: http://computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/62770.html

Forum for Computer Help

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?
Bleeping Computer is a community devoted to providing free original content, consisting of computer help and tutorials, in such a way that the beginning computer user can understand. Getting started using our community is extremely easy! Click the link above to sign-up.

Windows 2000 MSCONFIG

Windows 2000 does not have the MSCONFIG program that was provided with Windows 98.
You can use the Windows XP version of MSCONFIG. Check this link to get that MSCONFIG:
http://www.techadvice.com/win2000/m/msconfig_w2k.htm

Fixing Mom's Computer

I was wondering around the internet and was able to find this practical site: http://scribbling.net/how-to-fix-moms-computer The guy encountered a corrupted win98 computer which was caused by his Mom's download of a barenaked ladies song. He fixed the PC using the Ad-Aware, updated windows, secured interner explorer, defaulted firefox browser and trimmed down start-up program with MSCONFIG . He did a lot of stuff that brought back the PC to life. Click the link above to know what he did.