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 (June 2010)

Here is the 5th edition of our monthly news.

Project:

• We had some downtime on the server hosting trac and forum between the 16th and the 20th (hardware issues) and fortunatly nothing was lost. You can read more in these 2 posts: Trac and forum down and Trac and forum up again.
• The forum will be moved to the new server in a bit more than 2 weeks. The change will be transparent for you. And that means only trac and buildbot are left on the old server. They should be done before Defcon.

Forum:

• Airoscript not dead. It got some updates and is now renamed to Airoscript-ng. To get it, type svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/branch/airoscript-ng in a console.
• Beini 1.2.1 was released a few days ago. It can be downloaded it from its website.
• minidwep-gtk, a GUI of aircrack-ng in shell script, has been updated to work with Aircrack-ng 1.1.
• criser, the author of WepCrackGui, is developping a QT frontend for WepCrackGUI that should be included in the next release, v0.9. You can find instructions to get the sources and test it in this post. He also posted some screenshots. You can follow him on twitter: @wepcrackgui.

Other:

• I'll give a talk at Sharkfest about wireless security next week.
• digininja released a Karma patch for hostapd. It now works with ath5k and ath9k. It should work with prism54 and various other cards but that's untested.
• Backtrack 4 r1 was released. Changes: new kernel (2.6.34-rc6), packages updates, and new drivers. Note that it is an unofficial build meant for assesing hardware incompatibilities with the new kernel.
• The WiFi Alliances and WiGig announced alliance on multi-Gigabit wireless networks in the 60Ghz band. It will allow up to 7 Gigabit/s. You can read more here. The official press release can be found on WiGig website.
• Here is another GUI in Java for Aircrack-ng: GRIM WEPA.

Monthly news (May 2010)

Project:
- Aircrack-ng 1.1 was released a bit more than a week ago. A lot of bug fixes (including the buffer overflow in different tools) and improvements have been done. The most noticeable changes are the addition of airdrop-ng by TheX1le and the interaction in airodump-ng.
The following screenshot shows some of the possibilities of the interaction (more details in the wiki and in the manpage). In this case, when you color an AP, its clients are automatically colored the same:


Forum:
- criser released v0.8 of his C# (Mono) GUI, wepcrack. He uses git for his source control and if you want to use the latest source and don't know much git, read the following. He is looking for someone who can design an icon for his software.
- Zermolo released permutator beta 1.3. It generates incremental wordlists/dictionaries based on your needs. The package by Jano contains the source code and an Ubuntu package.

Other:
- ShamanVirtuel released a GUI to capture WPA handshakes called Autohs-GUI. His project is hosted on Google Code along with a few other programs.