Windows Wi-Fi 'vulnerability' not a vulnerability

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Good One / Infrastructure Only: A quick Start>Run>cmd, to get to a dos prompt followed by:

netstat -r

Will display your routing table.

If you see 'link-local' or you use -rn, you should NOT expect to see a destination:

169.254.x.x

As George astutely points out (George knows Networking), setting your wireless to 'infrastructure' (Managed) vs (Ad. Hoc) should cure this.

And, of course, slap yourself 'silly' if you haven't got your firewall turned on!

Just a sideline tangent to this--users of Laptops who travel, can set up secure shell (e.g., Cygwin or Putty) to tunnel encrypt all of their activity back to their home machine (provided the home machine is running the sshd server) or to a web lowcost shell account.

This sets up an encrypted tunnel from the Laptop to the endpoint sshd server where all activity is the forwarded.

Cygwin Example:

ssh -l username -D:8000 home_ip

Then, go into your browser and set up a proxy with 'localhost' and port 8000 and you can protect all of your browser activity whilst on the road.

And all of your browser activity will become tunneled to the home server and then forwarded to the net!

Guaranteed.

Thanks George for a good article.; Posted by: D. T. Schmitz Posted on: 01/19/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Good One / Infrastructure Only D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

Instead of ssl balsover | 01/19/06

Compression D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

One More Nattering Point D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

Typo D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

I am familiar with the protocols. balsover | 01/19/06

Elaborate D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

VPN and SSL hacking... cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/19/06

VPN hacking / What D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

He doesn't know what he's talking about george_ou | 01/19/06

Thanks George D. T. Schmitz | 01/20/06

Not so fast George cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/20/06

Just stop. You don't even understand basic cryptography. george_ou | 01/20/06

RSA is very obsolete cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/20/06

You don't even know what RSA is george_ou | 01/20/06

Thanks, George Real World | 01/19/06

OEMs could help... dragontiger | 01/19/06

Very well said...but... JJ_z | 01/19/06

Every one at fault here george_ou | 01/19/06

Good Article George, But What About Avg Joe Home User? itanalyst | 01/19/06

The router vendors should take some blame too Michael Kelly | 01/19/06

A little off topic but good question george_ou | 01/19/06

Have you ever heard of a LAN Party? cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/19/06

Have you been to a LAN party? You don't use wireless for gaming george_ou | 01/19/06

Respectable gamers? cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/20/06

Being blind and ignorant of basic crypto technology is worse george_ou | 01/20/06

Asymmetric Numerical Dynamics... cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/21/06

Stop cutting and pasting things you don't understand george_ou | 01/21/06

George; why the insults? nizuse | 01/21/06

No insults, just calling it like it is george_ou | 01/22/06

You teach an IT Security course? itanal | 01/20/06

Not Isolated to Home Users... cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/22/06

Who's "clueless"? george_ou | 01/24/06

I don't think you know the definition of "ad hoc". el1jones | 01/25/06

This isn't english class, it's WLANs george_ou | 01/25/06

Learn the definition of "ad hoc" when applied to networking. Furiousrog | 01/26/06

One small thing to point out Sabz5150 | 01/19/06

It's not a flaw george_ou | 01/19/06

MS thought the same with WMF format... cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/19/06

No, better usage of existing protocols sorely needed george_ou | 01/19/06

Please give us a break Richard Flude | 01/19/06

So what? george_ou | 01/19/06

Time to throw away the shovel and Richard Flude | 01/20/06

And what is the difference? george_ou | 01/20/06

You still don't get it Richard Flude | 01/21/06

Nope, no problems george_ou | 01/21/06

Great Link Richard Flude | 01/22/06

Knoppix Hacks / Hack #44 D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/06

Ou wee! credibility = 0 Reverend MacFellow | 01/19/06

This may not be a "vulnerability" but it is a big problem - here's why. nicholasmiller | 01/20/06

You're right about the shameless self promotion george_ou | 01/20/06

I respectfully disagree nicholasmiller | 01/20/06

And you think this is a good PR strategy? george_ou | 01/20/06

You know what they say about PR nicholasmiller | 01/20/06

I didn't fault you for selling a product george_ou | 01/20/06

SP2 doesn't fix the security issue cburgess-iPALADIN | 01/22/06

Bad definition of Vulnerability rpmyers1 | 01/20/06

WMF *was* a really bad design from Win3.x george_ou | 01/20/06

Design rpmyers1 | 01/20/06

It's "lame", get over it. george_ou | 01/20/06

rpmyers1 you're right Richard Flude | 01/20/06

I stand by my position on this "lame" advisory george_ou | 01/20/06

usability vs security barsteward | 01/20/06

And what's your point? george_ou | 01/20/06

the point is.. barsteward | 01/20/06

The point is that it's lame george_ou | 01/20/06

Red flag waving rmerts@... | 01/20/06

the point.... barsteward | 01/21/06

the point 2... keitme | 01/21/06

Security Nonsense X41 | 01/22/06

Yes the method is lame. Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 01/25/06

and before you start Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 01/25/06

This is just getting weirder and weirder george_ou | 01/26/06

Dude what happened to the article? spinits | 01/22/06

Try reading before you reply george Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 01/26/06

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