Monthly news (July 2010)

This month I have some really interesting news. A lot of people would like to have Aircrack-ng on their phone (including me) but unfortunatly most phones can't work due to their drivers. Do you remember when I talked about NeoPwn v2 which is BackTrack Mobile?

A beta will be released before BlackHat/Defcon and will include Aircrack-ng. What's really great is that injection works with the internal card of the N900 (the original video can be downloaded here):

 

They also released 2 additional videos on Youtube:

• BackTrack Mobile (Nokia N900) - Packet Injection Aireplay-NG
• BackTrack Mobile (Nokia N900) - Mac Address Changer

Forum:

• There's a new section in the forum for BackTrack Mobile.
• Beini 1.2.1 was released. It can be downloaded from its website.
• Jano updated wesside-ng replacement, one-command WEP crack to save the key into a file.
• criser released WepCrackGui 0.8.1, a GUI for Aircrack-ng in C# (Mono). It can be downloaded on Sourceforge.

Other:

• BlackHat conferences will happen the 28th and 29th. Schedule can be found here.
• Besides BlackHat, there will also be BSides Las Vegas. There aren't as much talks as in BlackHat but they look really interesting.
• Defcon 18 (29 July - 1 August) posted the final schedule a week ago.
• Starting from 2011, the Wifi Alliance will not allow WEP and TKIP in certified Wifi devices. You can read more about it on WiFiNetNews.
• I missed the update (v2.1.7) of the patch for FreeRadius-WPE (Wireless Pwnage Edition) released in May.

Monthly news (March 2010)

Forum news:
- Beini 1.0 final was released: Forum post.
- I'm happily surprised that the C# (Mono) script developement for aircrack-ng is still active :). By the way, here is the project on sourceforge: wepcrackgui. The current version is 0.6.3
- A new version of minidwep-gtk, developped in shell script, gtk-server, zenity, kdialog, was released. Here is a video of this script in action. It is included in Beini 1.0.

Trac news:
- Various small fixes (makefile, manpage, ...)
- A patch for the r8187 (ieee80211) driver on kernel 2.6.32 (and lower). Installation instructions are updated.
- Compilation is fixed when compiling unstable stuff (wesside-ng/easside-ng and tkiptun-ng) with a recent gcc version (v4.4)

General news:
- Aircrack-ng now has 4 years old. I checked when the first news was posted and it was the 25th February 2006. Surprisingly, the 2 following news happened the 25th February this year :)
- A new paper about TKIP attacks was released by hirte: Enhanced TKIP Micheal Attacks.
- Airdrop-ng from TheX1le is now available in our subversion repository. Here is the video of the talk at Shmoocon 2010.

If you haven't seen it yet, Shmoocon 2010 videos (and sometimes the slides too) are available.

Last but not least, here is a very funny video of a woman calling Leo Laporte's Tech Guy Show claiming her WI-FI access has "disappeared".

Monthly news

A few things happened last month:
- The google phone, Nexus One was rooted and it has a bcm4329 chipset and it looks promising.
- Airodump-ng (in svn trunk) now has interactive mode: you can control it with keys. You can find the documentation in the wiki.
- A really small (only 10MB) distribution based on MicroCore Linux, console only.
- I'm sure you saw it, Backtrack 4 was released a few weeks ago.
- OSX Compiling (Ticket 687) should be fixed now (svn trunk revision 1657).
- New version of Beini: 1.0 RC5.2
- The developement of the GUI in C# (Mono) is quite active.

Last but not least, aircrack-ng will be 4 years old by the end of february :)