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Debunking the Latest Fear Mongering News on WPA security

2008-10-13 09:07:51 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...WPA security had been hacked, but George Ou beat me to it . The buzz comes from Elcomsoft's Distributed Password Recovery . The innovation is that they use NVIDIA GPU acceleration for password cracking and can distribute the crack across a network to multiple clients and their NVIDIA GPUs. The GPU acceleration, they claim, "reduces password...
 
Tags: wpa, password, password recovery, password complexity, authentication, authentication system, complexity, wpa security, nvidia gpu acceleration
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Houston-Fi, ASCII WPA Passphrases, Green Wi-Fi

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2008-08-19 10:26:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...WPA passphrase, which is later described as "hex." (ASCII passphrases in WPA can be up to 63 "printable" characters - ASCII 32 to 127 - while a hex version of a 256-bit TKIP or AES password is 64 hexadecimal digits long.) The article tries to conflate Wi-Fi attacks that led to the largest set of breaches in retail credit-card systems and...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi attacks, houston, wi-fi security, free downtown wi-fi, free, security, ascii, security theater
 
 
 
 
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15 Minutes To Crack Your WPA+TKIP

2008-11-05 10:56:53 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...WPA is the tile of the presentation by Erik Tews scheduled for the sixth annual PacSec conference , November 12 and 13, 2008 at Aoyama Diamond Hall in Tokyo, Japan. I'm told that Tews is doing work on WPA+TKIP, a very common and trusted wireless security configuration. Sounds like he's found a way to crack it. This is, it seems, the same Erik...
 
Tags: crack, erik tews, tews, speedier wep crack, wireless security configuration, sounds familiar, sounds, aoyama diamond hall, crypto issues
 
 
 
 
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Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

2008-11-06 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks
 
Tags: encryption standard, wpa, security researchers, wi-fi, wireless networks, protect data, access, crack
 
 
 
 
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Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

2008-11-06 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks
 
Tags: encryption standard, wpa, security researchers, wi-fi, wireless networks, protect data, access, crack
 
 
 
 
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WPA encryption cracked..

2008-11-06 21:09:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Just read this about the "more secure" WPA encryption for Wi-Fi networks is now cracked. Read all about it here - apparently by the same guys who broke WEP (this is what hurt TJX). I guess the bar has been raised
 
Tags: wpa encryption, wi-fi networks, apparently, bar, tjx, wep, secure, guys
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available Weakness in Passphrase Choice in WPA Interface Most Wireless Speakers Don't Live Up to Goal Best Wi-Fi Signal Finder Yet Linksys Latest Models: Your Experience T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant Editorial: Don't Buy Draft N WPA for Free under Windows 2000 The L in Linksys WRT54GL...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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iPhone 2.0 Software Adds 802.1X for Enterprises

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2008-07-10 15:51:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...WPA Enterprise and WPA2Enterprise options appear. Select either, and the main login screen lets you enter the network's name (SSID), a user name, and a password. This basic method is limited to WPA Enterprise and WPA2 Enterprise, the two most common (and most secure) forms of 802.1X Most enterprises will want much more control over this...
 
Tags: software, iphone, iphone software, enterprise, wpa2 enterprise, wpa enterprise, iphone configuration utility, network security, network
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...WPA2, discussed later) even states that a computer can refuse to communicate with an access point that doesn't broadcast its SSID. And, even if you think your SSID is hidden, it really isn't. Let me explain All 802.11 wireless networks, regardless of the kind of operating system or encryption you might use, also emit unencrypted frames at...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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PCI Bans WEP SecurityStarting 2010

2008-10-06 09:38:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource