posted in Reading material on Jan 2nd, 2010
Larry Seltzers glossary about wireless security terms found on www.eweek.com. Wireless Security: A Partial Glossary of Wireless Security Terms Just about a month ago, in early November, the news came out that the first cracks were appearing in WPA, or Wi-Fi Protected Access, a very popular wireless security standard. The compromise that was accomplished by [...]
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posted in Articles, Reading material on Oct 2nd, 2009
Introduction This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys. I recommend you do some background reading to better understand what WPA/WPA2 is. The Wiki links page has a WPA/WPA2 section. The best document describing WPA is Wi-Fi Security – WEP, WPA and WPA2. This is the link to download the PDF [...]
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posted in News & media on Sep 3rd, 2009
An article on “The register” attracted my attention which says access to WPA protected WLANs will be granted after 60 seconds. In times where people understand WEP is the wrong way to protect their WLAN new methods are required. Clever guys from the Kobe university discovered this method. Networking nerds claim to have devised a [...]
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posted in External tools on Jul 12th, 2009
Tool name : Aircrack Description : Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the [...]
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