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WiFi

Troubleshooting Buffalo WLI-UC-GN on OSX

January 31, 2010

These are some notes from trouble-shooting the Buffalo Wifi  WLI-UC-GN USB dongle on OS X.
I’m using an older Linksys BEFW1154 802.11 B wireless router as my test access point. I wasted a day trouble-shooting my airport because I plugged the cable modem into a LAN port rather than the WAN port. When I scanned for [...]

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Wireless N USB Airport adapter for Mac’s or Hackintosh’s

January 19, 2010

All of Apple’s laptops come with a built-in wireless adapter.Why would you need a wireless N USB adapter?
There are a lot of reasons…. Perhaps the wireless asapter on your laptop is broken. Often when you buy an old used laptop the previous owner has scrounged and sold the wireless adapter. And if you [...]

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Network PEN testing Toshiba Satellite P200-BW1 Intel 4965AGN Testing

December 16, 2009

Notes to myself for penetration testing using Ubuntu Hardy Heron with Toshiba Satellite P200-BW1 (built-in Intel 4965AGN wirless card)
1. Check to ensure the Intel 4965AGN driver module is installed
lsmod | grep iwl
2. Put the wireless card into monitor mode
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
3. Edit the kismet.conf in /etc/kismet/ to add the source [...]

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How to use free coffee shop wireless securely – part 3 – Your Own Virtual Private Network (VPN)

December 3, 2009

Create your own virtual private network with Hamachi
You can do things between computers on your home or office network you can’t do securely on a public WiFi network like listen to a shared iTunes library, access files in shared folders and corroborate on shared projects. But using the free virtual private network application Hamachi, you [...]

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How to use free coffee shop wireless securely – part 2 – Create a secure tunnel using SSH

December 3, 2009

Create a secure tunnel using SSH
by John Davidson
In part 1, we learned that using Wi-fi in public hotspots can be dangerous because of packet sniffers which can view and log all unencrypted network data. You need to protect yourself by encoding both what you are sending and receiving over by using https:// (note the [...]

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How to use a secure tunnel to view US televison on hulu.com, nbc.com and comedycentral

December 3, 2009

Stream Hulu, NBC and Comedy Central to your computer while living or traveling outside the United States.
by John Davidson
Watch full episodes of all the best in US TV programming streamed to your home computer. Are you a fan of Highlander, Family Guy or Heroes? Well you can watch seasons of episodes the whole library of [...]

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