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Linkpost | 11.6.2008
TechBlog —
... • Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked - Takes researchers about 15 minutes to crack a connection between a notebook and a router. • ...
WiFi WPA encryption partially cracked
SlashGear —
... If you’ve not already done so, prepare to ratchet your router security up to WPA2: the latest news from the tech security world is that researchers have figured out a way to at least partially crack WPA encryption. Set to be detailed in an academic journal in a few months time, the process is the work of Erik Tews and Martin Beck who figured out a way to get WPA-encrypted routers to send them a large chunk of data that can then - with the aid of a “mathematical breakthrough” - can be analyzed and used to break WPA’s TKIP key in just ...
WPA is the new WEP, and by that we mean useless
Boy Genius Report —
Next week at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo, security researcher Erik Tews is expected to put on quite a show. Tews will be showcasing what he describes as the first practical attack on the widely used WPA Wi-Fi security protocol. Tews’ attack, discovered during testing performed with his co-researcher Martin Beck, tricks the router into sending him a large amount of data and combined with a “mathematical breakthrough,” Tews is able to break WPA much faster than any previously tested method. In fact, it reportedly takes between 12 and 15 minutes ...
WPA Wi-Fi Security Gets Cracked; Your Network is No Longer Secure [Security]
Gizmodo —
... to break the temporary Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in under 15 minutes. They haven't, however, figured out how to gain access to the data that travels between the PC and the router, so that's a plus. So what should you do to secure your network? Switch to WPA2, which is still uncracked for the time being. And if you want to be one of those marginally-skilled Wi-Fi hackers? Grab the Aircrack-ng Linux program, which has already had this new code added to it. You dick. [PC World via Tech Digest] ...
WPA WiFi Security Gets Cracked; Your Network is No Longer Secure [Security]
Gizmodo —
... to break the temporary Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in under 15 minutes. They haven't, however, figured out how to gain access to the data that travels between the PC and the router, so that's a plus. So what should you do to secure your network? Switch to WPA2, which is still uncracked for the time being. And if you want to be one of those marginally-skilled WiFi hackers? Grab the Aircrack-ng Linux program, which has already had this new code added to it. You dick. [PC World via Tech Digest] ...
Wi-Fi Protected Access Broken
dailywireless.org —
... Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption, reports PC World. ...
Doh! First serious crack in WPA encryption appears
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... Researchers claim that they managed to crack WPA Wi-Fi encryption in about 15 minutes, and they plan to show the world how they did it next week. Better get your WPA2 encryption settings warmed up. Up to now, the only real way to crack WPA was through a "dictionary" attack—a time-consuming, brute-force method that calls for plowing through an "extremely large number" of permutations to find the right encryption key, PC World notes . But according to the ...
Fifteen minutes to crack WPA protocol, says researcher
Betanews —
... . From there, the conventional method of breaking in involved a brute force dictionary attack, or a long process of elimination by trying millions of options. PC World ...
WPA WiFi encryption partially compromised
Obsessable News Feed —
... A new attack is available against the WPA encryption widely used to secure WiFi networks. WPA replaced the earlier WEP encryption, which has been vulnerable to attacks for years. The new attack tricks a router into sending a large amount of data, which can be analyzed and used to retrieve a session key in about 15 minutes. Although the WPA system isn't completely broken open by this, as hacker have yet to decrypt communications going from a PC back to the access point, it's a significant step towards defeating WPA. ...
Download Squad PSA: WPA encryption successfully cracked
Download Squad —
... It may not be typical Download Squad fare, but this morning's news from PC World is important enough to share with our readers. Researchers Eric Tews and Martin Beck managed to break a TKIP key in about 15 minutes using a non-dictionary attack. It's the ...
Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol in 900 seconds, Researcher
D' Technology Weblog —
... PC World says that Tews and his partner Martin Beck have discovered a “mathematical breakthrough” that allows the WPA encryption to be cracked dramatically faster. Some of the tools Tews and Beck used are rumored to have been already included in ...
President-Elect Barack Obama launches change.gov
Politweets —
... Project aims to turn GPS phones into traffic reporters http://tinyurl.com/5uj6kj 5:11 AM Nov 7th from Ubiquity Frosting and your insurance - http://tinyurl.com/554oaj 4:01 AM Nov 7th from Ubiquity UK Govt goes big brother, to record and index all internet traffic to/from UK - http://tinyurl.com/57l4cz 3:51 AM Nov 7th from Ubiquity Security: Wi-fi Protected Access (WPA) is cracked. WPA2 remains secure http://www.pcworld.com/arti... 2:41 AM Nov 7th from Ubiquity Blogger gives blog readers a ...
