Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Sputnik, Inc.. Wow a cool starutp building software for WLANs that turns every client into a router.

Sale Clothing List. Good place to look for bike clothes. I’m on a screaming yellow high-visibility kick.

ITPRC – Wireless. wireless specific information also includes a good set of links on WLAN security. told me about netstumbler which is free unlike airopeek or nai sniffer

NetStumbler – Proudly Stumbling a Street Near You – EtherealA cool site that talks about how to have wireless LAN card specific sniffer. airopeek is one.

Windows Packet Capture LibraryA Packet Capture tools lives under it all.

Index of /distribution/win32 This is a packet sniffer. It is pretty clear, you need intrusion detection which is a rules based thing. Ethereal is just a sniffer without rules. Then there is LANguard which looks at your machines.

SecurityFocus Corporate Site. Another great site. Has tools as well.

Snort – The Open Source Network IDS : News. From seattlewireless.com, they recommend this tool for intrusion detection. Will try it now.

Disable Windows NT/W2K/XP Hidden Administrative Shares. It is amazing that NT/W2K and XP ship with these administrative shares. Fortunately, this page tells you how to close it off

AirPort Base Station Configurator. When you have WEP enabled on the Airport, for some reason the Freebase tool can’t see the access point via wired or unwired connection. However, this tool can see it for some reason and then you can reset the WEP off and everything works fine. Next problem I face is that…

Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter A great list of why XP won’t power down correctly.

Apple AirPort Base Station HardwareOK I screwed up when I put a WEP key on, so this shows where the reset button is on the AirPort. Amazingly the manual doesn’t appear to cover that.

FreeBase – Free Windows software to configure the Apple AirPort Base Station. Hey a VB applications to configure the AirPort

KarlNet Incorporated : Bridges, Routers, BRouters, Wireless LANs/WANs. An interesting company for Steve Bush. This company does the firmware for Orinoco and Apple Airport. They have a 486 processor in them.

Using Apple’s Airport Base Station with Windows. Got one from the Airwave guys and now am setting this up on aWindows network.

Nessus. Supposedly one of thge best port scanners. I just love Languard and how easy it is to use. Particularly for SMB vulnerabilities.

scanner comparison

Network Computing | Feature | Security | Vulnerability Assessment Scanners | Page 1 | January 8, 2001

GIAC: Global Information Assurance Certification – Home Page Seems to be a good site to look at for how certification works on security.

eEye Digital Security. Best scanning tool is now on Windows

Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000. A very nice set of utilities for Windows

Security Tools : ScannerAn easy place to fine the scanner stuff. Watch out for viruses in them though!

NetworkEval.COM Home PageAnother site with something that identifies all shares

SC Magazine. Of course there is a security trade publication!

Nmap — Free Stealth Port Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits. Runs on Linux/Windows/UNIX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. This appears to be the port scanner of choice.

Auditing Inside the Enterprise via Port Scanning & Related Tools. Here is a good list of software tools to get to do intranet scanning

Netcat ? The TCP/IP Swiss Army Knife. Starting to go through Internet security tools. Here’s a good place to start. Referred to it in the latest issue of www.pcmag.com on hacking.

Windows File Protection and Windows. After I deleted ATM 3.0 from an old Adobe Photo Deluxe 3.1 install (BTW, XP should probably prevent installs of old stuff like this). I got a file protection problem and then my CD-ROM disappeared. Fortunately, google found the windows utility called SFC for system file checker that will save…

PCHelpLIVE.com on CD-ROM Disappearing. Another Microsoft Knowledgebase failure like the others, nothing there about CD-ROM disappearing, but a google search for CDrom Disappear XP yields this. It is an UpperFilters/LowerFilters problem from the install of Musicmatch.