Mobile Phones that support WiFi connections have a huge advantage over those that do not. Connecting to a wireless hotspot makes it possible to use services that would otherwise cost lots of money. How about free services like VOIP phone calls, checking emails or surfing the Internet ? Best of all you can do all [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Nokia

My first thought when I heard about the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Memory Card was that no one would be going to need this SD card with build in WiFi but when I read a little bit further my opinion changed from No-one-needs-that to Wow-what-a-great-idea. The Eye-Fi SD cards come in sizes of 1 and 2 Gigabytes, the 2 Gigabyte version sells currently at Amazon for $99.99 which is way more than a SD card without WiFi would cost.

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware

Wlandscape is a Java application that displays the Wlans in a specified area on a street map making it so much easier to identify possible hotspots that can be used to access the Internet. The software needs some batch file editing before it can be used, nothing serious though.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Did you know that it is relativly easy to phish Wi-Fi hotspot subscription credentials ? The process involves only two steps and requires a wireless network card that supports the HostAp drivers which makes it look like the signal is actually coming from a hotspot and not from an ad hoc network.

Categories: Security

There have been lots of articles lately that explain how to secure a wireless network. Most of this articles contain at least one measure that is not enhancing security at all. This does not neccessarily mean that it is lowering the security on the other hand though. Let us take a look at the six dumbest ways to secure a Wirelss Lan.

Categories: Security

The article wireless security attacks and defenses begins with a example how people who are new to the wireless world run their wireless devices carelessly and thus invite others (with more knowledge) to exploit this weakness. Those people run for example wireless routers at factory defaults because they don´t know better, they think the device is safe the way it´s preconfigured.

Categories: Security

Wireless Networks are becoming more and more common these days and lots of people are ignoring the fact that they have to secure their wireless lan. Seth Fogie from informit estimates that about 40-50% of all wireless lan users use no protection at all for their network.

Categories: Security

Wireless hacking becomes more widespread these days. Many people drive / walk through town with their laptops trying to find unprotected wireless networks to do all sorts of things. Most harmless one would be to use your connection to surf and download, but it could also include downloading your files, spamming using your computer, installing malicous programs on your computer aso.

Categories: Hacking