New Attack Cracks Wi-Fi Security in One Minute

New Attack Cracks Wi-Fi Security in One Minute

Scientists in Japan claim they have developed a way to crack WPA Wi-Fi encryption in about one minute. WPA is a common wireless encryption standard used in homes and businesses. The attacks work only on WPA systems that use the TKIP algorthim, not the newer WPA 2 and WPA systems that use AES encrpytion.Wi-Fi certified devices have had to support the WPA 2 standards since 2006.

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I was reading about this on PCmag earlier today... its insane how fast security protocals are being broken.

I guess it goes to the old saying "if it can be programmed it can be hacked"

Well heres to quantum encryption

 

At my router at home it has it where you have to allow ever mac address that goes through it and WEP PSK2 or what ever it is.

 

Well, I'm currently using WPA2-PSK now, so safe for the moment I guess

 

Yeah i saw that today as well . Yikes!!!

 

Lol, i was on WPA2 for a long time as well. It seemed to have compatibility problem with EVERYTHING though. So i went back to WPA and everything was fine.

Wow one minute is insane though

 

wpa has always been pretty easy but its taken some time. a dictionary attack etc and few software tools is common practice..wep is well just useless that is a minute job also if even 30 seconds in most cases. looks like this new one is based on a chopchop attack not really new with wep but seems now to work well with wpa..

but one minute takes it up a notch

wpa2 right now is the only way to go but there are many already trying to knock that over also

 

Even if the network isnt being broadcast?

This is scarey right there, im still on wep lol.

 

yup. all you need are the right software tools. backtrack with airmon and a few other things will show you all ssid's even ones not being broadcast not at all hard to find those. and there are many other ways also with various software tools

i have a neighbor to my office who at first though he was smart after a said you know you are on a unsecured network.. so he went and added wep. i then (he owns a LARGE jewlery store and had a lot of client info in his system (not trying to snoop but they have been freinds for a long while and i was trying to help him with no other intentions in this whole thing) went over and handed him his wep key took me maybe 30 seconds with a laptop standing in my office.

so then he removed his ssid and changed his wep kep. he was very proud of himself. i did the same this time. he was pretty shocked at that point. then he went to wpa (after me urging him to go to wpa2) i also then went over with his wpa key.

all in all he ended up letting me set him up with the proper wpa2. now he is secure at least for the most part....

all in all its very easy to do with wep or wpa

 

Hmm, hate it when goons try and break these dam encriptions, mays well just switch back to an ethernet box and have ethernet links all around the house.

 

just use the right setup. use wpa2 and use the mac filtering options etc no nothing is ever 100000% but there are very few normal people who will bother with those types of setups

 

WPA2 + changed salt (network name) and everything's good (well, at least pre-computed rainbow tables get useless).

MAC filtering and hidden SSIDs offer zero protection.

 

agreed mostly hidden ssid does nothing. mac filter is better then nothing..