Vivek in the News!
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The Caffe Latte Attack featured on the CBS5 6PM news!
Vivek Ramachandran along with Airtight Colleague Rick Farina demonstrated the Caffe Latte Attack against the iPhone at the Paulo Alto Coffee Shop. An offline video is available below:
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The Caffe Latte Attack makes headlines on major news sites!
Vivek Ramachandran discovered the Caffe Latte Attack along with an Airtight colleague MD Sohail Ahmad. This discovery made every employee of an organization still continuing to use WEP, an attack vector. Please find below a non exhaustive list of news websites which wrote about the Caffe Latte Attack:
- Info World, Caffe Latte attack steals data from Wifi PCs
- The Register, Caffe Latte attack steals data from Wifi Clients
- IT World Canada, Hacked when you sip your Java
- BBC, Wi-fi security system is broken
- Tech World, WEP destroyed by new Client hack
- WiFi Net News, Why WEP cracks still matter?
For a complete list of articles Click Here to Search Google for Caffe Latte Attack.
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WEP Cloaking Exposed voted one of the best presentations at Defcon 15!
Vivek Ramachandran's presentation on WEP Cloaking was a great success and the audience unanimously agreed that WEP was broken beyond repair and that WEP Cloaking or any other band-aid technologies were a far cry from the solution. Please find below a listing of sites which talk about his presentation:
- Phishme.com, Wrapping Up the Cons: Best of Black Hat and DEFCON
- InfoWorld, Matt Hines, Of Spineless TV Producers, WEP Cloaking and Blocking WiFi
- Marketwire.com, AirTight Reveals a New Variant of Evil Twin at DEFCON; Also a Major Demonstration of WEP Cracking Even in Presence of Chaff
- Mister_X, Blog of the author of Aircrack-NG suite of WEP tools who was there during the talk
Vivek Ramachandran makes in to the India Top 10 list of the Microsoft Security Shootout Contest!
Microsoft organized an all India web application security competition called the Microsoft Security Shootout in 2006. There were 4 stages of increasing difficulty and over 50,000+ participants to compete with. Vivek was among the Top 10 people in the competition and was awarded at a public ceremony held in Bangalore.
