Index

B

bandwidth, 18-19

baseband, 24

baseband signals, 15, 25, 27

base-station antennas, 119

Basic Service Set ID (SDDID), 63-64

beacon packets, 66-67, 162

beacons, disabling, 97

billing attacks on hotspots, 272-273

billing portals, 268-269

binary phase shift keying (BPSK), 28

binary planting tool, 328

Bittau, Andrea, 187

Black Alchemy, 198

blued.plist files, 314

Bluesnarfing, 8

Bluetooth

autorooting of, 326-329

Blue-driving equipment, creating, 292-301

countermeasures to Bluetooth attacks, 330

defined, 288

File Transfer Profiles, 325

functionality profiles, 289

InqTana worm and, 306-316

range of, 288-289

scanning and enumerating, 301-306

security problems with, 289-292

sniffer, 291

Special Interest Group, 7

spoofing Bluetooth devices, 316-326

uses of, 6-7

wireless standard, 32

bluez-utils-2.23, 295

BOOTP/DHCP protocols, 339

BPP (Basic Printing Profile), 289

BPSK (binary phase shift keying), 28

breaking

WPA/802.11i, 204-212

WPA hardware-accelerated cracking, 210-211

broadcast probe requests, 92, 94

broadcast SSID, 227

Broadcom

802.11g chipset, 102-103

Windows driver, 353

brute-forcing

40-bit keys created with Neesus Datagram algorithm, 179

basics of, 174

countermeasures for brute-forcing WEP keys, 177

on Linux and OS X, 174-175

on Windows machines, 177

Burgess, James, 289

business impacts of wireless threats, 9