Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air…
WikiLeaks Releases CIAs ‘Cherry Blossom’ Project Docs: Shows CIA Has Been Hacking WiFi Routers For Years…
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on […]
802,Eleventy What? A Deep Dive Into Why Wi-Fi Kind of Sucks…
When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. Promising “11 Mbps” compared to original wired Ethernet’s 10 Mbps, a reasonable person might have thought 802.11b was actually faster than 10Mbps wired Ethernet connections. It was a while before I was exposed […]