Testing on vulnerabilities

Security flaws are discovered in standard software regularly. Mostly, they affect everyone. At least, you should be certain, if you’re affected or not. Sometimes, the vendors provide good information on those discovered vulnerabilities. But sometimes you need test for your own good night’s sleep.

Here are some links with information/software you can use to test your own network vulnerability.

Note

As you see, the list is quite short at the moment. Because I’ve just started to document it myself.

Caution

I don’t claim, this list is complete or will ever be.

CVE-2017-13082 (“Krack attacks”)

A several years old implementation flaw of the WPA standard has been discovered recently. That’s why almost every WiFi device using WPA/WPA2 is affected. But patches are on the way …

Find details on this vulnerability here: https://www.krackattacks.com

Or use a linux software to test your own access point against it: https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks-test-ap-ft