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GPS Spoofing

2008-09-17 07:03:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...signal. Portable GPS satellite simulators can fit in the trunk of a car, and are often used for testing. They are available as commercial off-the-shelf products. You can also rent them for less than $1K a week -- peanuts to anyone thinking of hijacking a cargo truck and selling stolen goods In his first experiments, Jon placed his desktop...
 
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Signal to Undermine This Such an attacker could not remove RF noise from the received signal. Our eyes and brains are good at filtering out the noise in the TV video, but there is a lot of it. Part of the noise comes from the atmospheric background RF, but there are also flaws (noise) in the tuners radio and analog-to-digital capture...
 
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Signal Finder Yet Linksys Latest Models: Your Experience T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant Editorial: Don't Buy Draft N WPA for Free under Windows 2000 The L in Linksys WRT54GL Stands for Linux A few observations. Security remains key in people's minds: Security articles from 2004 are still being heavily viewed in...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Whither Miami Beach-Fi? Overzealous Wi-Fi Config; Microwave Oven Leakage

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2008-04-29 14:02:01 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...signal strength. But no Internet feed. Anyone in Miami Beach know The brilliant xkcd comic takes it to the next step: Wireless zero config? Try overzealous wireless config Microwave oven may have disrupted reader's Wi-Fi: Rob Pegoraro over at the Washington Post notes that a friend of his discovered through the process of elimination that his...
 
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...signal strength . (They're sort of ignoring signal strength at a given point where an individual stands in relation to a transmitter, however
 
 
 
 
 
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Skyhook Expands Wi-Fi Positioning to Cell, GPS

2008-06-30 10:25:33 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...signals for better location: The pitch at Skyhook Wireless is that despite its accuracy, satellite-based GPS remains relatively expensive, that it's slow to get a fix when it powers up, and that it's not accurate enough in the middle of cities. Their XPS 2.0 system leverages GPS with the advantages of Skyhook's Wi-Fi signal database and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Indian Terror over Wi-Fi; Fastest Wireless; Health Fears; Wi-Fi Tub; and More

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2008-09-15 10:03:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...signal levels Wi-Fi in a tub: I'm not going to say anything more QuickerTek adds antenna to 300 mW ExpressCard for MacBook Pro: Users of Apple's higher-end laptops can drop $200 to get a 300 mW Draft N (802.11n) ExpressCard and 5 dBi external antenna with a mounting clip. That's a lot of power, and it's important to recall that have a louder...
 
 
 
 
 
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OpenCourseWare: Get Smart for Complex Event Processing!

2007-12-30 06:22:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Signal Processing ? Or maybe you are interested in Advanced Complexity Theory ? Artificial Intelligence ? Computer Language Engineering ? Queueing Theory Well then, put your feet up, relax and click on over to theDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and enjoy their courses, freely available to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box podcast #70 successfully recorded... on *conference WiFi*!

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2007-11-07 21:52:46 by HASH0x84726ec in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
...signal! Very cool! And a 94ms round trip sure beats a 200-300ms round trip, eh To get this good quality on a conference WiFi really speaks to the efforts of the Interop NOC team to deliver this kind of network. Kudos to them For those curious, I recorded the show locally on my MacBook Pro using WireTap Studio from Ambrosia Software. Given...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security talk on the radio

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