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From the RISKS newsletter Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys: With the latest version |
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10-14-2008, 10:19 PM
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From the RISKS newsletter Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys: With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack. ... http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12...00-fold-increa se-in-wpa2-cracking-speed/ http://www.prweb.com/releases/wi-fi/...web1405954.htm http://securityandthe.net/wp-content...elease_wpa.pdf Ok, so, do you still think ALLLLLL you need is a cute new wireless router? |
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10-15-2008, 01:38 PM
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I read that article a couple of days ago. My understanding is a long
alphanumeric password such as the one below still takes quite a long time to break. p*Y3g4E&{43jk^ld$fU%oA8^9s0!7K#L2q$3$J#79oJe&*23*j Ox2$3D~4nZl;a/By89aw,4H9n I wouldn't worry about it for now since it's a brute force attack which requires quite a powerful distributed computing power in addition to GPU power. Your neighbor must be really rich and bored to be able to pull this. "the wharf rat" <wrat@panix.com> wrote in message news:gd3nfl$ljd$1@panix2.panix.com... > > > From the RISKS newsletter > > Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 > detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys: > > With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is > now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 > times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of > the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only > needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack. ... > > http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12...00-fold-increa > se-in-wpa2-cracking-speed/ > http://www.prweb.com/releases/wi-fi/...web1405954.htm > http://securityandthe.net/wp-content...elease_wpa.pdf > > Ok, so, do you still think ALLLLLL you need is a cute new > wireless router? > |
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10-18-2008, 04:29 PM
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Possible does not always equal practical. Anyone with anything that would
make it worth the trouble already has more than just WPA2 in place to protect it. I call FUD Besides, who would want to crack my wireless when my neighbors is wide open? They have cable broadband.....I mean....or so I'm told. Ferd "the wharf rat" <wrat@panix.com> wrote in message news:gd3nfl$ljd$1@panix2.panix.com... > > > From the RISKS newsletter > > Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 > detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys: > > With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is > now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 > times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of > the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only > needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack. ... > > http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12...00-fold-increa > se-in-wpa2-cracking-speed/ > http://www.prweb.com/releases/wi-fi/...web1405954.htm > http://securityandthe.net/wp-content...elease_wpa.pdf > > Ok, so, do you still think ALLLLLL you need is a cute new > wireless router? > |
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10-18-2008, 06:54 PM
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In article <u#WHbiWMJHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>,
Ferd Burfel <ferd@burfel.net> wrote: > >I call FUD > Absolutely. The Association for Computing Machinery is a well known source of FUD. Just because some scientist somewhere has published a method to crack WPA2 protection in seconds doesn't mean that anyone would actually bother to use that idea to eavesdrop on yours and steal credit card data or financial information. Everyone knows all those hackers are too busy playing Counterstrike and trying to hack ebay. >Besides, who would want to crack my wireless when my neighbors is wide open? Why did Dillinger rob banks? |
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10-19-2008, 12:19 AM
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"Ferd Burfel" wrote:
> ...who would want to crack my wireless when my neighbors is wide open? They > have cable broadband.....I mean....or so I'm told. I've known guys who did that sort of stuff just to snoop on their neighbors' private lives. I guess it was a sort of power trip. They knew more about their neighbor's extramarital affairs and homosexual trysts and private medical information and financial investments and medical problems than any normal person would *want* to know. I knew one guy who used his neighbors' wireless internet connections in order hide his kiddy-porn "excursions". Just hope you don't live next to one of those guys. *TimDaniels* |
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