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  • Current State of Wireless Security

    29Nov
    Author: admin Categories: IT Management Comments: 0

    WEP is dead.  Even your mother knows not to encrypt her Linksys wireless router with WEP.  For all of us that have played around with the aircrack-ng tool set (on our own networks of course :-) ), we know that by using aircrack in conjunction with packet injection/replay attacks WEP keys can be cracked within a couple minutes [EDIT: According to German researchers, WEP can now be cracked in an average of 20 seconds on an 802.11g network].

    Well, we should use WPA/WPA2 PSK then right?  Well yes, but with a couple constraints… Read more »

    Tags: aircrack-ng, wep, wireless security, wpa

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