Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Aircrack-ng 1.0

Yes, 1.0 final, finally :)

There are not much changes compared to the 1.0rc4, just a few fixes. Here is the changelog:

- airserv-ng: Now works fine between 32 and 64bit OSes.
- wesside-ng: Fixed some endianness bugs
- airodump-ng-oui-update: Make sure the user is root when updating the file.
- airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.17).
- All: Fixed compilation with some gcc.
- patches: Added missing patches from patches.aircrack-ng.org: mac80211_2.6.28-rc4-wl_frag+ack_v3.patch
- manpage: Updated aireplay-ng manpage.
- INSTALLING: Removed (now) useless requirement for OSX installation.
- GUI (windows): Fixed 2nd selection of a capture file.

For those who use subversion, the sources are not in sync with the trunk. The reason is that svn commit is currently broken.

It broke during a Debian update and we're still trying to figure out how to fix it (It should be fixed by the end of September in one way or another). We've pinpointed the issue and found that the reason is because of the authentication but since we did not change anything to the configuration, I have no idea why it suddenly broke. If anybody knows how to fix it, that would be great.

Last but not least, we're also launching the new website (and logo) as explained in a previous post: New Stuff. Feedback is welcome.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Contests @ Brucon Wireless workshops

UPDATE (Brucon): Please don't crack networks where you were not given permission to crack, thank you.

Brucon is getting closer :)

As I said, I'll give a workshop friday (17h00) and saturday (09h00, I know, it's early) and there will be 2 contests (one each day). The winner will receive an ALFA AWUS036E with a 5dbi antenna:

ALFA AWUS036E + 5dbi antenna

They will be run during the workshop and for both of them you need a laptop and a wireless card. You can use the tools of your choice.
- The first one, friday, you'll have to find an access point outside the convention area.
- And saturday, you'll have to crack the key of an access point (I haven't decided yet if it will be WEP or WPA).

More details will be given during the workshops.

Friday, August 7, 2009

New stuff

Hello everybody,

sorry for not posting anything since some time now, but we have been really busy these days and we got new stuff for you:
- 1.0 rc4 last week
- 1.0 final release date
- Planned features in 1.1
- New logo
- New website

I guess you saw there was a release, 1.0rc4 a bit more than a week ago.
This fixes a lot of stuff (and add some new). It fixes compilation not only on linux but also on BSD plateforms (OpenBSD compilation is fixed) and others ...
The changelog speaks by itself ;)

Here are some planned features for 1.1:
- Be able to use directly cowpatty tables in aircrack-ng (without having to convert them to airolib-ng).
- OSX capture (and maybe injection) with some adapters (Ticket #653).
- Improved WPA handshake detection.
- Bug fixes (of course)
- ...

We also have been working on a new website. Here is a preview: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/new_index.html.
The goal of this new design is to be able to reduce the traffic on the website, currently around 1Tb each month and also to be give a quick access to important information.
As explained in an earlier post, it will not replace the wiki, it will just be the home page and be next to the wiki (you can keep all your bookmarks).
If you (still) have any remark (or improvements) about the new design, you can still post them in the forum (you don't need to register to post).

The logo contest is over and we have a new logo. Here is a preview (winner: segini75). We will also sell t-shirts soon (I know a good website for europe but I still have to find one for the US).


Last but not least, the new website (and new logo) will be launched at the same time as the 1.0 final release in a week or two if no big bugs are found in rc4 :)

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Finding the author of the DoS

As I said, I know the IP address of the author of the DoS on our website and since he's located in Europe (Spain), it shouldn't be really hard to solve the case with the Computer Crime Unit.

However, I would like to try to solve it with him first. I just want him to contact me (tdotreppe@aircrack-ng.org) within 2 weeks to reimburse the bandwidth he generated and explain why he did it and I promise there will be no consequence, no complaint registered.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Thanks a lot

Good news, the website is now up thanks to all donations.

Even if I really like to work on aircrack-ng, it is really great to see a lot of people helping us, and I really want thank them a lot ;)

The other good news is that we now have enough to pay hosting until July (if this kind of DoS doesn't happen again) but please continue, that would be wonderful if donations could cover hosting costs every month.

Last but not least, I promise that I'll try to make that guy pay the traffic he generated.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Paying the bill

I finally found who is the responsible or at least the IP address of the author of this DoS (if generating 1.5Tb of traffic in 2 days and making the monthly traffic exceed thus making the website down is not a DoS, then what is it?) and you can be sure that this guy will have to pay the traffic, sooner or later.

Administrative stuff is taking too long so I think it will be easier to pay the bill now to have the website back up.

Aircrack-ng cost me around 60 euro per month (+ domain names that have to be renewed each year, wireless cards, traffic, ...) and although we have around 30K unique visitors each day, unfortunatly donations are quite low (the total for last year was around 80 euro). The reason why I'm writing this post is to ask for donations to pay that bill (around 130 euro).

So, any donation to tdotreppe@aircrack-ng.org (paypal) is really welcome.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Website down

Unfortunatly, the website is down due to an error in traffic calculation.

We usually use 30-40Gbytes per day and we have 1200Gbytes of traffic per month, so enough for each month.
But the 14 and 15 April, their system say we use 688 and 884Gb (= more than 10Mbytes/sec for 24 hours) of traffic (so 20-30 times what we usually use) thus exceeding the allowed traffic per month.

I'm contacting them to try to fix it as soon as possible.

Edit:
Here is an update: http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2009/04/paying-bill.html