wi-fi driver hacking video
sth posted in cons, wifi on August 8th, 2006
Pretty much anyone paying attention in the last few months has seen references to the wi-fi driver hacks that Johnny Cache and David Maynor have been talking about. Well, last weekend at BlackHat and Defcon they gave presentations on their work, which culimnated in showing a video of the attack taking place. This video is now online for your viewing pleasure. They didn’t really go into specific details about the attack during the presentations, but they did talk a bit about methodologies, and why they chose to investigate things are the driver level. They both wrote fuzzers at the wi-fi link layer, and both were able to find problems in the specific vendor implementations. They targeted a USB wi-fi device running on the mac (which caused quite a stink), and were able to get full access. Since this attack is on the driver/link layer, it bypasses any firewall or anti-virus setup, and allows direct access to the kernel/memory.
More defcon updates to follow — I’m still in recovery mode, 
April 10th, 2007 at 8:41 am
bad
September 18th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Awesome, when are you launching the tools???