Skip to main content

Miggitty Miggitty Mac Address

 Helping your router identify your WiFi adapter on your network. A Mac address is unique. Kinda like your device's fingerprint. It's made of 6 sets of 2 characters and separated by semiolonsì. A Mac address is comprised of letters and numbers. As an example; something like this ... 01:aa:gg:88:bb:ccp

What Makes a Mac Address

First six characters are classified as organizational unique identifier.. or OUI...  popular lookup tools/ databases are IEEE ieee Public Mac Address Look Up Tool... Online Search Tool by Wire Shark, to name a couple- there are many more...some more upto date than the other. If you can't locate the OUI within one, give the others a try. 

A Tool such as the WiFi Pineapple can link directly to OUI resources giving us an efficient research tool for network analysis.

OUI's For Research

Utilising such data as an OUI can be of tremendous importance- providing shortcuts, Where once blind, guessing... now, knowing a manufacturer, can point us to default login credentials/ user names/ passwords...

Finding that Mac Address

But... Where? What is that... Mac... address?

Where/ how to locate a Mac address 🤔? I'll go into it further in a future post... but here is a animated / screen capture gif that flashes through the many locations/ methods where that Mac address can be found... most times searching for the IP address...you may see the results include it...also, on the product packaging, typically arround the upc. 



A Word or Many of Caution When it Comes to Mac Addresses 

Be Careful 

For the devious... It is important to understand much of what is mentioned above and to take things serious...from an OPS Sec stand point. Not paying attention, and you're leaving your big fat ol' finger prints...may I add greasy at that...you just scarffed down some fried chicken 🍗  and french fries...you are one of those people that dip your fries in mayo(me, some, times.. a guilty pleasure...). So, keep that in mind if you are trying to go in cognito. Also, activities like WarDriving can put such identifiers on a map...giving away locations...whereabouts...your Mac/IP was logged at 5pm in the city, then a coffee shop near a banking hub...10 minutes later near the public transit station which has open Internet your device's auto joins the network...25 minutes later your Mac appears in a slummy section of town where it is logged once again by some free WiFi access points lingering for 10..15.... 20minutes...where the next logged instance of your Mac/ IP is seen again at the public transit station headed to the burbs... what can we depict from the above?  Headed home after a long day's work? Picking up some 'treats' along the way? Or it just so happened to be a hip new food truck, but located in a shady part of town....

That's just a general example how that Mac address can be used to paint a picture of your life..identify you.

I'll have a post getting into more technical aspects on the subject...like commands to locate, update,  change ...further uses... more scenarios... more tales of caution. I am sure that the above was just general knowledge that you've known for decades...sorry, I didn't mean to bore you... don't worry, things will heat up...get spicy.  Just keep an eye out for new content- in the mean time, feel free to post in the comments anything you'd like to learn..or share? Maybe some tools? 


For now though....I'll leave it at that....




Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Windows Doesn't recognize Your HackRF device? Wrong Drivers? Try ...

 Mostly for me to remember, but Windows at times has a lapse in judgement with certain devices, DIY gadgets, peripherals that you maybe trying to connect to- for me, it was my HackRF( I have since stumbled upon a better way to start for the HackF if having driver woes- which I will cover in another post- but keep reading, since this is still good knowledge to know regarding driver issues )- no matter what, my PC could not recognize the HackRF/ or would recognize it, but as a keyboard. I required Windows to apply the correct drivers to the device so that it could be recognized for what it is... a...SDR. A HackRF.  Guessing What's Right... Making Assumptions. Getting it Wrong. So, really what we see here is that when connecting that never connected before thing into your PC, Windows is making an assumption on what that thing is, and then applying the best driver that it thinks suites that thing... From experience, and a general rule of life... "assumptions" aren't the b...
Post a Comment
Read more

Maximising RF Range as per Texas Instruments

Making electronics such as semiconductors and pioneering advances in integrated circuits. Consistently Texas Instruments brings us innovation - in their "about me" they state this mentioning advancements "to make technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable" – "Engineering Progress.", that is what Texas Instruments are about. Wireless/ RF Texas Instruments  or TI with their many product offerings and solutions, many of which fall into the category of being wireless- that is what our modern world is now- involving many technologies, but today we are talking more in the area of RF or Radio Frequencies. Though these technologies have advanced, and our knowledge has grown in said technologies- still, limitations exist. One of them, when talking about RF is the range that your solution needs, and realistically, the actual range possible with the technologies being utilized.  How Far Can My RF Signal Transmit? Receive? Sorry to burst you...
Post a Comment
Read more

RTL-SDR-MANY-MUCH-ALL-MORE-EVERYTHING-BEGINNING-END-ALPHA-OMEGA

  History and the discovery of the RTL-SDR , which started out with a comfortable life as a RTL2832U , or RTL2838 - the latter, though mentioned in many components, not truly existing, rather, being named a RTL2832U (might be the reverse...). In attempts of  demodulating DAB/DAB+/FM a fella named Eric Fry put the above into the mix which further brought us the RTL-SDR More on the discovery and history of  the RTL-SDR.      Apps for the RTL-SDR Many applications and libraries which are using either librtlsdr directly or some part of the gnuradio source which is also considered as gr-osmosdr: Name Type Author URL gr-pocsag GRC Flowgraph Marcus Leech https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/gr-pocsag/trunk multimode RX (try first!) GRC Flowgraph Marcus Leech https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/multimode/trunk simple_fm_rvc GRC Flowgraph Marcus Leech https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/simple_fm_rcv/trunk python-librtlsdr Python Wrapper David Basden ht...
Post a Comment
Read more