Wireless Security On The Hardware Side

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The Dark Side Of DefCon's Wireless
Network

The Dark Side Of DefCon's Wireless
Network 08/07/2004 03:46 AM

Apple launches wireless hardware for
PCs, Macs

Apple launches wireless hardware for
PCs, Macs 06/07/2004 07:05 PM
National Post Jun 7 2004 10:33PM GMT

Apple Sets Wireless Hardware for PCs,
Macs

Apple Sets Wireless Hardware for PCs,
Macs 06/07/2004 05:38 PM
AP via Daily Press Jun 7 2004 9:52PM GMT

Apple Sets Wireless Hardware for PCs,
Macs (AP)

Apple Sets Wireless Hardware for PCs,
Macs (AP) 06/07/2004 05:36 PM
AP - Apple Computer Inc. broadened its support of Windows-based computers Monday, introducing a new wireless access device designed to work with computers running either Mac OS X or Microsoft Corp.'s operating system.

Actiontec 54Mbps Wireless PC Card
Giveaway! @ Hardware Pacers

Actiontec 54Mbps Wireless PC Card
Giveaway! @ Hardware Pacers 06/27/2004 06:39 AM

Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical
Mouse @ Hardware Pacers

Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical
Mouse @ Hardware Pacers 09/20/2004 04:30 PM

Hardware Review: irock! 400FM Wireless
Music Adapter

Hardware Review: irock! 400FM Wireless
Music Adapter 05/31/2004 01:48 PM
I really love my iPod , but when you’re out on the open road, it’s not so social when everybody...

Hardware security sneaks into PCs

Hardware security sneaks into PCs 03/17/2005 03:14 AM

Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux
security

Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux
security 01/27/2004 10:21 AM
As the MyDoom virus spread rapidly across the Internet on Monday, Bill Gates extolled the value of such attacks and warned against other operating systems' complacency. Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates took a side-swipe at rival operating systems on Monday, as he reiterated the importance of security for Windows; in particular its next version, which is codenamed Longhorn.

Wi-Fi security standard to require new
hardware

Wi-Fi security standard to require new
hardware 05/07/2004 10:50 AM
In June the IEEE is expected to finally ratify the 802.11i security standard that uses for the first time AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) technology, a powerful 128-bit encryption technology.

Security hardware battle heats up

Security hardware battle heats up 04/05/2005 09:12 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 5 2005 1:07PM GMT

White Paper: Macromedia Flash Player 7
Client-Side Security

White Paper: Macromedia Flash Player 7
Client-Side Security 01/03/2005 03:01 PM
Learn how the Flash Player security model addresses potential security risks on the client.

IBM fits PCs with new hardware-based
security chip

IBM fits PCs with new hardware-based
security chip 09/16/2004 07:00 PM
NEW YORK - IBM Corp. has begun using new security hardware from National Semiconductor Corp. in its desktop PCs in an effort to fend off viruses and hackers.

3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on INFORMATION
SECURITY, HARDWARE

3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on INFORMATION
SECURITY, HARDWARE 11/25/2003 10:22 PM
NetLib Nov 25 2003 8:23AM ET

Adventures in wireless security: Why
home and corporate wireless LANs are
insecure

Adventures in wireless security: Why
home and corporate wireless LANs are
insecure 06/03/2004 03:44 AM
The meat of the article is: “…Wireless security recommendations: Change your system defaults – everyone knows them. Change the Admin and SNMP passwords. Change the IP network range. Also change the Server Set ID (SSID). The SSID is a unique identifier for your wireless hub/router. The default SSID is set in the factory is definitely not unique. Don’t broadcast the SSID. While you can change the default ID, that does little if your hub or router broadcasts that SSID. Enable Wireless Encryption. WEP or something similar can be compromised, but it makes it significantly more difficult to compromise your information. The larger the key length, the better. Enable Shared Key Authentication. The default Open System setting lets anyone connect to your network with very minimal effort. Change your SNMP Community String. Create a Community String like it is a strong password. Enable MAC Address Codes. Again, this makes it more difficult for a hacker to compromise your home network. Set Wireless LAN cards to Infrastructure Mode. Most cards have the default Ad Hoc mode, which is less secure. Don’t rely only on the broadband firewall. A firewall at your home’s Internet entry point is critical. However, you should still have personal firewalls on all computers on your network, in case something makes it through your home’s firewall or a hacker does make it onto your network.”

Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution

Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution 06/17/2005 03:57 PM

Nothing like a good side by side comparison to separate the men from the boys when it comes to the next gen gaming consoles. True, not much is known at this time, but then again, for anyone seriously mulling this over and hankering for a good solid spec mash-up, you’ve come to the right place. In fact, we feel this is the longest, most massively detailed side-by-side ever built on the topic. Here we go……..

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Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka

Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka 01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Guy Davenport is dead. The irrealist w riter, tra nslator of Archilochus, friend of modernists, and influential teacher has joined Hugh Kenner in whatever lies beyond this mortal coil. More links at today's wood s lot, where I learned the sad news.

Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L

Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 2:03PM GMT

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool 06/17/2005 04:35 PM
NADAguides.com recently announced the launch of an online side-by-side comparison tool, giving car buyers the ability to compare up to four new or used cars simultaneously online. With this new service, shoppers can compare new against new, new against used or used against used for makes and models dating back to 1998.

MS to intro hardware-linked security for
AMD64, Itanium

MS to intro hardware-linked security for
AMD64, Itanium 11/03/2003 05:53 PM

AMD develops hardware fix to target
major XP security risk

AMD develops hardware fix to target
major XP security risk 01/26/2004 09:52 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 27 2004 2:20AM GMT

MS to intro hardware-linked security for
AMD64, Itanium, future CPUs

MS to intro hardware-linked security for
AMD64, Itanium, future CPUs 11/03/2003 07:41 AM
NX technology becomes the standard from XP SP2

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side 03/19/2005 02:58 AM

The Idea: What do you do if you need or want to collaborate, but you can't do so in person? What purposes are best served by weblogs, wikis, and other types of online collaboration tools, spaces and media? Collaboration entails finding the right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge, work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to the collaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment, tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they work together effectively. This is challenging enough face-to-face in real-time. It's doubly difficult virtually and asynchronously. But there are examples of great music, literature, invention, scientific discovery and problem-solving that have come from such handicapped collaboration. How did they do it, and can you improve the likelihood of brilliant virtual collaboration by using the right tools and media? Let's take a look at some of the alternatives: Tool / Medium Collaborative Advantages Collaborative Disadvantages Best Suited to Collaborative: weblog easy to post & comment; content is subscribable/ publishable participation limited to comments Conversations wiki anyone can contribute content harder to learn; can be easily sabotaged; inelegant appearance Projects / Alliances whiteboard real-time; anyone can contribute content content only persists for duration of call; possible firewall issues Conversations / Projects document-sharing can be real time; anyone can contribute content possible firewall issues; attention is focused on a document Conversations / Projects IM/skype/phone/ e-mail/ videoconferencing real-time conversations; audio/visual context; speed content only persists for duration of call Conversations mindmaps shows and documents consensus can't capture detail Projects discussion forums threading of comments; content is subscribable/ publishable limited contextual knowledge of participants; can attract undisciplined behaviours; threads can be hard to follow Conversations community of practice/ interest spaces organization; defined membership; multiple collaborative tools harder to learn; formality can reduce intimacy and level of participation Projects / Alliances personal e-mail groups flexible; personal; easy to use e-mail overload/spam; threads get lost or hard to navigate and follow Projects / Alliances social networking tools large number of members; good way to find collaborators most actual collaboration is done using other tools and media Finding collaborators in-person collaboration easy; real-time; context-rich; flexible expensive; time-consuming All of the above if time & cost permits There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of contact: Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a few times, discussing a particular subject or group of subjects. Projects: Where you're in contact as often as necessary to complete a project. Alliances: Where you're in contact in multiple conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an indefinite period of time. A collaborative conversation may be provoked by an interesting or important idea or an urgent one-off need for information or assistance. Much of the time spent in business is consumed in consulting with others, in canvassing for ideas or suggestions or comments, and in making decisions on what something means or how to respond to it. These are generally quick, collaborative conversations. In large organizations these conversations are usually peer-to-peer (where trust is stronger than up or down the hierarchy), and as size increases further they tend to be more and more intermediated (one middle-manager recently told me that 70% of his e-mail and 50% of his telephone calls are of the "Who should I talk to about X?" variety). In smaller organizations, these conversations are more likely to draw on external networks, and to involve the use of today's clunky social networking tools like LinkedIn and eCademy. I have argued before that the next generation of social networking tools should include 'people-finders' that streamline and automate the process of finding the right person (inside or outside the organization) to talk to, so that more time can be spent on actual conversations with those people. Once you've found the right person to converse with, if they're close and inexpensive to talk to in person, that's likely what you'll do. But what if they aren't? How do you quickly provide your Conversation Collaborators with the context they need to converse with you effectively when you can't put a chart or a piece of paper in front of them and brief them? Organizations have found that if the person you want to converse with face-to-face is more than two minutes walk (or elevator ride) away, the probability of you making the effort to converse with them in person drops precipitously. If you have a blog, an audience, and a little time, your blog can serve this need well. Ask a question on a popular blog and you'll probably get an informed answer quite quickly (thank you readers!) Most businesses, alas, have few established blogs and even less time. Preferred conversation tools in business, when face-to-face is impossible, are now IM and the telephone -- with IM trumping the phone for its self-documentation, its suitability to multi-tasking, and because it's easier to browse than voice-mail, and the phone trumping IM if a lot of iteration is needed to provide context. White-boarding and document-sharing applications, awkward as they are, can be helpful additions to IM and telephone conversations if the participants are savvy enough to use them properly (most aren't) and if documents and graphics are needed to provide more context. E-mail is the increasingly unpopular fall-back. Discussion forums are the ultimate tool of last resort for conversations, because of the disadvantages listed above. In most of the companies I am familiar with, they are only sporadically used and quickly grow stale. A variety of tools have been developed for more enduring project collaborations and alliance collaborations. Because they tend to involve more participants than conversations do, the logistics get tougher and the effectiveness of these tools gets more challenging. And the threshold point for giving up on the viability of in-person collaboration rises dramatically. I think this is an absolutely critical point. It is the reason large corporations, with the internal resources (people and money) to sequester, have the capacity to collaborate more effectively than small corporations and loose, unfunded collaborative groups (though whether they use that capacity to advantage is another question entirely). Open Source project teams and alliances have pioneered low-budget, virtual, asynchronous collaboration, and are the role model to follow. But is the reason for this perhaps that Open Source collaborations are generally undertaken by exceptionally tech-savvy groups, very agile at using and even inventing their own collaborative tools to get the job done? They usually have a good GUI for the non-techie, but wade into the material and collaboration technology behind a lot of these groups and your head will start spinning. What about the other 95% of the population? If I want to set up a virtual collaboration team to design a model intentional community (with people I might end up spending the rest of the my life with) or to invent a post-capitalist economy (a large project if there ever was one), what tools and media should I use? Wikis are one place to start -- a bit nerdy and physically inelegant but functional and not that hard to learn once you take the plunge. They are, however, asynchronous tools, which is a significant barrier to true collaboration. There are some more robust collaborative 'spaces' for communities of interest and communities of practice to adopt, but some of the best 'groupware' (like Groove and Exchange and eRooms) costs money and requires considerable learning to use its different tools effectively. These tools generally also require a coordinator to invest a lot of time to setting up and managing the 'space'. There are a variety of document-sharing technologies in the market, which allow several people to see a document at once and to 'take control' each in turn to change that document. Ideally, using a combination of Skype (free global VoIP telephony), White-boarding (everyone online can see what anyone posts to the white-board), Document-sharing and Mindmapping or some similar session annotation tool (everyone can see what the group's 'scribe' has documented as the findings, decisions and next actions from the collaboration) would be a close approximation to an in-person collaborative session. But that's a lot of technology to juggle on your screen, to hog and interfere with your bandwidth, and (if you opt for the more powerful tools in these categories) can also require some outlay of money. My experience has been (thanks in no small part to the valuable insights of online communication wizard Robin Good and Skypemaster Stu Henshall) that video-conferencing (seeing the people you're talking with online) is a "nice to have" not a "need to have", especially when bandwidth limitations force you to choose which applications to have running at any one time. I am confident that, as bandwidth and processing power continue to expand, we will soon see: A single, free, reliable, easy-to-use, professional-looking application that will provide what I've called Simple Virtual Presence -- the four applications listed above plus the option of videoconferencing (illustrated above), and A simple, free, easy-to-use collaboration space where the results of the online collaboration sessions, and a library of relevant resources and links, are stored, with wiki-like capability so it can be maintained by any and all in the group. Now that would be a real virtual collaboration environment.

Apple launches wireless hardware: Apple
Computer Inc. has broadened its support
of Windows-based

Apple launches wireless hardware: Apple
Computer Inc. has broadened its support
of Windows-based 06/08/2004 02:35 AM
NDTV Jun 8 2004 7:03AM GMT

COMDEX Las Vegas 2003, IEEE Security &
Privacy Magazine Spotlight The
Intersection Of Hardware And Software Se

COMDEX Las Vegas 2003, IEEE Security &
Privacy Magazine Spotlight The
Intersection Of Hardware And Software Se 11/13/2003 01:53 AM
COMDEX Nov 13 2003 1:13AM ET

Homeland Security Rapped On Wireless
Security

Homeland Security Rapped On Wireless
Security 07/02/2004 07:25 PM

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD 03/22/2005 04:52 PM
New York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT

Hardware Vendors Offer Microsoft
Internet Security and Acceleration
Server 2004 in Dedicated, Easy-to-Use
Solutions

Hardware Vendors Offer Microsoft
Internet Security and Acceleration
Server 2004 in Dedicated, Easy-to-Use
Solutions 05/24/2004 02:15 PM
When Microsoft talks with customers about the newest version of its Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server at TechEd today, it will have company. That's because ISA Server 2004 isn't just the latest version of Microsoft's advanced application layer firewall, virtual private network and Web cache solution. It's also the foundation for a growing range of dedicated security hardware.

Microsoft Hardware & Starck Design
Company Hardware Collaboration

Microsoft Hardware & Starck Design
Company Hardware Collaboration 06/22/2004 10:50 AM
You heard it first here. Microsoft informed us today that we could post a link to this teaser announcing a product collaboration between Microsoft Hardware and Starck Design Company. Starck is a high-end cosmopolitan design company which works include everything from boats to clocks..along with this upcoming mystery product which is going to be released on July 8th.

"side-by-side comparison"

"side-by-side comparison" 09/19/2004 02:22 AM

Wireless Security

Wireless Security 08/04/2004 04:27 AM
CNET Asia Aug 4 2004 8:33AM GMT

Wireless LAN Security FAQ

Wireless LAN Security FAQ 11/28/2002 11:07 PM
Yesterday I complained about the lack of knowledge of basic security issues in some PHP articles. Well I am getting a wireless card for my notebook, and thought I'd learn more about the security issues of 802.11. It's a pretty sad tale for anal-retentive security-obsessed slobs like me. Encryption keys (SSID's) are sent in clear text, etc.

"zeldman.alfred"

Wireless Security Basics

Wireless Security Basics 01/22/2004 08:47 AM

AMD Clamps Down on Wireless Security

AMD Clamps Down on Wireless Security 01/20/2003 04:37 PM
New wireless Flash Memory Device with 64-bit password protection claims to deter signal thieves from mobile phone billing fraud or pirating television.

VoIP and Wireless Security

VoIP and Wireless Security 04/19/2005 06:17 AM
My company blocks the Skype Web site because it would open some of our company’s ports and giving hackers the chance to break in. According to this article, VoIP is a threat to wireless security. There’s a price to pay for using a free product. It’s possible to get secure VoIP, but it means subscribing to a service from a phone company and paying a monthly fee just as you would for your other phone…

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Father of 802.1X on Wireless Security

Father of 802.1X on Wireless Security 12/02/2003 02:33 PM
Vipin Jain speaks out about .1X and basic security issues on wireless networks: Straight from the horse's mouth, we hear about the utility of 802.1X, which will almost certainly become the authentication method of choice at hot spots before 2005 for all the reasons he cites. I expect to see more and more 802.1X-for-hire that could serve home users and small enterprise users alike. One funny statement by Jain: 802.1x has been adopted in operating systems such as Linux. There are commercial Linux 802.1X clients (from Meetinghouse, etc.), but the open-source project is still a work in progress....

No WLAN? You still need wireless
security

No WLAN? You still need wireless
security 05/16/2004 10:51 PM
ZDNet May 17 2004 2:46AM GMT

Wireless Security By The Gallon

Wireless Security By The Gallon 12/29/2004 06:06 PM

DNC cops just don't get wireless
security?

DNC cops just don't get wireless
security? 07/28/2004 11:16 AM
On the politech list, a thread of items from various listservs related to cybersecurity and the Democratic National Convention. In one item, reader Wes Morgan says,

I'm watching CNN's Headline News, and they run a story on security preparations for this week's Democratic Convention in Boston. They go on, at great length, about the extensive network of cameras--approximately 75 of them, scattered around various Federal buildings and convention sites--and make it a point to illustrate how the security force, with their wireless networks and handheld devices, can grab the feed from any of these cameras at the tap of a stylus.

So, they show one such device - with it's 802.11b card clearly identifiable - and show another agent viewing a webcam of the Boston Harbor shoreline - with the URL of the hosting site clearly readable. When talking about the cameras, they show several different cameras on different buildings, some of which seem fairly unusual in their architecture.

I now know that they're using 802.11b, and I know the name at least one system handling the webcam feeds, and (with a bit of reconaissance) I can probably determine the position of at least one camera. So much for cybersecurity; I can't believe that the Feds even let that stuff on the air, much less that they did so without obfuscating critical information. *sigh* What were they thinking?

Link, and here is a press release which states that DNC cops are using handhelds with (apparently) 802.11 to access law enforcement databases.
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