wpa

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Networks

Queensland Police Targetting Wi-Fi Freeloaders

10:44AM Nick Broughall | Have you been downloading gigabytes of porn off your neighbours unsecured Wi-Fi connection? Do you live in Queensland? Then you could be all out of luck, with a report by Asher Moses at the SMH Brett Winterford at ITNews that Queensland police will be pro-actively seeking out unsecured wireless networks to warn homes and businesses that they are open to fraud and identity theft. More »
Share 7 Comments

Friday, November 7, 2008
Gadgets

WPA Wi-Fi Security Gets Cracked; Your Network is No Longer Secure

1:15AM Adam Frucci | When it came to setting up Wi-Fi networks, if you knew what you were doing you would enable WPA security. This would keep people with a small amount of knowledge from gaining access to your network, which is very easy with the much weaker WEP security. No more! WPA security has now been cracked, rendering all but the most tightly-locked networks open for hacking. More »
Share Comment

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Hardware

Hackers Use Nvidia Graphics Card to Smash Wi-Fi Encryption 10,000 Percent Faster

5:00AM Matt Buchanan | Here’s one way to tap the parallel processing power in Nvidia’s graphics cards: Wi-Fi security hacking. Russian hackers reportedly bored through WPA and WPA2 encryptions using a brute-force technique juiced with one of Nvidia’s latest graphics cards (they don’t say which ones). The card supposedly made the “password recovery” process up to 10,000 percent faster. The report’s notably skimpy on the details, but if true, that’s a whole lot of busted for Wi-Fi security. [SC via DSL Reports] More »
Share Comment