Wireless seepage

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Tim Higgins

Last week’s Blackhat DC Briefings included a presentation by Errata Security on “Data Seepage”, most notably of the wireless kind. “Seepage” typically comes from chatty networking programs that broadcast information that can be used to launch exploits.

A slideshow of Errata’s presentation and a copy of their program, including source code and Windows exe file is available here.

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