A new Wi-Fi attack tool has been made available on GitHub that automates phishing attacks over WPA networks, putting credentials and other supposedly secret data at risk.

Researchers at cloud forensics and incident response platform startup Cado Security Ltd. today announced details of a recently discovered Python-based credential harvester and hacking tool. Dubbed ...

As a result, an attacker could get the PIN within 11,000 guesses. Veihbock demonstrated the vulnerability with a proof-of-concept tool he wrote in Python, available for download from his site.

A student in Iceland has come up with a potential antidote to Firesheep, a hacking tool that can access social-networking accounts over unsecured WiFi networks.

How hackers can steal passwords over WiFi The issue was raised in the past too, but the methods described were not as accurate and predictable as the WindTalker method to steal passwords over WiFi.

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Enter BlackSheep: its author Julien Sobrier, senior security researcher at Zscaler, says the tool is meant to alert WiFi users when someone is running Firesheep on the network.

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