What is War Dialing? - Information Security Stack Exchange
12. War-dialing is to telephone networks what network-scanning is to computer networks. A computer dials every number in a given number set to map out what's there. In olden days it was looking for unannounced modem gateways into interesting systems, and sometimes fax machines for fax-spam. The robust systems could tell the difference between ...
wireless - Security difference in wardriving open network versus ...
Apr 21, 2013 · With war dialing you would systematically dial every extension in a given exchange, or subset, looking for numbers that provide a handshake response (modems). War driving is essentially just driving around with a laptop that has a good wifi card (see: Alpha :) looking for WAPs that are accessible.
legal - War dial research - Information Security Stack Exchange
Jul 16, 2011 · Anyone know of any specific UK Law that would prevent the use of war dialling as part of a security research project?
Detect / Prove and Prevent Wifi Deauth attack
May 9, 2021 · I suspect that my neighbor is running multiple Wifi deauth flood attacks against my Wifi. I'm using WPA2 and I don't think he can really crack my password, but my devices keep having wifi connection
How are victims targeted from outer networks (WAN)
Jan 8, 2019 · To directly answer your question: it is possible to either attack a program that the victim is running (which made an outbound connection through the router, and the attacker exploits the program by injecting malicious traffic as though it's a response from the server), or to compromise the router (home routers, in particular, have notoriously ...
WPA/WPA2 attacks - Information Security Stack Exchange
Dec 11, 2014 · WPA cracking can only be done by dictionary attacks. In terms of wordlists versus rainbow tables, tables are basically precomputed hashes of words to improve cracking time at the expense of filesize and preparation. If two words are in the wordlist, the tables generated from that wordlist will find both words in the same amount of time.
Vulnerability of challenge-response (authentication) protocols to …
Jun 5, 2017 · Yes, but I'm talking about an on-line attack (i.e. the attacker is active). The attacker, let's call her Eve, is positioned between Alice and Bob (e.g. a malicious router).
WireGuard / CVE-2019-14899: How secure the protocol really is?
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Where to publish security research?
Nov 19, 2013 · I can think of a few options. You can try submitting it as a talk at a security conference or two. This is probably one of the best ways to get your research out there if it is semi interesting.
Does Two Factor Authentication (2FA) prevent Phishing and/or …
Sep 15, 2020 · It depends on the second factor. Most old-school ones (SMS, Google Authenticator, Email code) will not help. In the case of U2F security keys, the protocol involves a challenge/response and a key pair.