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Submission + - Another Limited but Wi-Fi Exploit (wifinetnews.com)

eggboard writes: Martin Beck, who in 2008 co-wrote a paper describing a way to inject packets into a secured Wi-Fi system, is back with a more extensive exploit. His "Enhanced TKIP Michael Attacks" still doesn't allow extraction of a key, and is limited to TKIP (not AES-CCMP) WPA-protected networks. Still, he's figured out how to put in large payloads, and to extract data sent from an access point to a client--all without cracking the network key. The attack requires proximity to sniff and inject data, but it's another crack in the older key standard (TKIP) that no one with serious security interests should still use.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - iPod Touch's 802.11n Chip for Networked Media Serv (tidbits.com)

eggboard writes: "iFixIt has discovered a Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n chip in the latest iPod touch (32 GB and 64 GB) models that uses single-stream 802.11n. Single-stream doesn't get the full power of N, but boosts speed enough that--along with space-time block encoding, a feature coming soon to Wi-Fi access points with two or more radios--the iPod touch could be an effective networked media server, for streaming and transfer, possibly through the new iTunes Home Sharing feature."

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