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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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

Workshop at Brucon 2009

I'll be giving a workshop at Brucon 2009 (18-19 September 2009).

Abstract:

During this workshop, I'll tackle different scenarios that could happen during an audit of WiFi networks (Open, WEP and WPA), including the use of CUDA and FPGA to accelerate cracking.

Aircrack-ng is not only meant for auditing wireless networks, it can also be used for site surveys and different tools based on it will be presented:
- Airgraph-ng, graphing wireless networks and its integration in Maltego.
- GISKismet, representing wireless networks in Google earth.
- And more...

There will also be a contest. More details will follow.

Airodump-ng with native wireless driver on Windows

EDIT: This was an April Fool :)

Altought this is not a final version (a work in progress), here is a version of airodump-ng that works on windows with the native drivers of your wireless card.

Here is a screenshot of the application:

Download link: airodump-ng-win-native-drivers.zip

Nearly all drivers in windows XP are NDIS. So, to allow/enable monitor mode in the drivers, you have to install a special "driver". Because MS may not like it, I prefer to distribute is via bittorrent: native_rfmon_winxp.torrent

Note: It was tested on Windows XP and with an Intel Pro/Set Wireless 2200. And it requires .NET 2.0.
Note 2: If your wireless card isn't listed, it means the adapter is disabled and you'll have to enable it and restart the application (Right click on "My Network Place" then select "Properties". In the list, right click on your wireless adapter and click on "Enable"). In the final version, it will be fixed and will only list wireless interfaces.

Edit: Here is the video (sorry for the quality, it's not easy to record the screen with a camera).