Defeating WPA2-Personal Wi-Fi on a WLAN Pi: A Step-by-Step Guide Disclaimer: This article is intended for educational purposes ONLY. The information presented here is meant to serve as a hands-on exercise to augment understanding of cybersecurity and ethical hacking principles put into practice for lawful purposes. Introduction Ensuring the security of Wi-Fi networks is paramount…
Latency vs Probability of Collisions This post is based on a presentation I recently delivered – the first time at WLPC EU 2023 in Prague, CZ and the second at #MFD10 Ignite in San Jose, CA. According to statisticians, variations from the average are more relevant than the average itself. This complication often plays out…
WLPC EU 2023 Prague Conference Recap Before the main WLPC conference officially starts, boot camps run for 3 days; they are a different animal. What would typically be a 4-day course is packed into 3 days of learning. It really is drinking from the firehose. The following boot camps ran in 2023 with an interesting…
Ventev Presents at #MFD10 Ventev had the benefit of presenting last at #MFD10 to share what they have been working on lately. They wasted no time jumping right into it with the VenGo Mobile Wireless Case. The VenGoTM is a crash kit travel case sized to fit in airplane overhead bins. Equipped with one or…
Wi-Fi and Speedtest via Apple Shortcuts First, all the credit for this goes to Adrian Granados (Intuitibits) and Timo Sass for creating and expanding these shortcut scripts. I wanted to capture the links for easier searching/installation in the future. With the release of iOS 17, Apple now supports more details around Wi-Fi performance testing via an API…
Near Field Communication (NFC) Overview Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between electronic devices in very close proximity. NFC operates within a short-range wireless communication standard, allowing devices to establish a connection without the need for complex setups or pairing processes.…
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) Highlights Wi-Fi 7 is slated to be the next release of the Wi-Fi standard from the IEEE final WG approval scheduled for May 2024, Also known as 802.11be – Extremely High Throughput (EHT), Wi-Fi 7describes tri-band operation across all three Wi-Fi bands – 2.4, 5, and 6GHz. To live up to the title…
Introducing FortiAIOPs 2.0 FortiAIOps (Fortinet’s Artificial Intelligence engine for Network Operations) has been a mainstay at Mobility Field Day since it was first introduced. This year, at Mobility Field Day 9 (#MFD9), Fortinet announced a newly architected version 2.0 that brings together the best of troubleshooting from their Wireless Management product together with the AI/ML-assisted…
Cisco does the “AFC Side Step” with the CW9166D1 Intentionally focusing RF propagation is a good thing but with more Wi-Fi Practitioners embracing focused antennas, there is still the reality that external antennas add to the cost and complexity of the installation. Some external antennas even cost as much as the AP itself, which can make…
It’s been a year, where is Open Locate Now? Last year, HPE Aruba Networking announced Open Locate, an indoor location solution designed to unlock real-time location services (RTLS) for various applications across indoor spaces. The solution utilizes a combination of integrated GPS receivers allowing APs installed at the perimeter of the building, with sufficient signal to…
