Researchers find more flaws in wireless security

Researchers find more flaws in wireless security
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-11-06

Wireless networks that use a popular form of security known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) are vulnerable to an attack that could compromise certain communications in less than 15 minutes, two researchers plan to tell attendees next week at the PacSec 2008 conference in Tokyo.

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Researchers find more flaws in wireless security 2008-11-09
Kunal

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was the first security option for 802.11 WLANs. However, it allows a hacker to crack the WEP key by exploiting the WEP vulnerability. Although a hacker can attempt to crack WEP by brute force, other soft techniques are also available. WPA employs the Temporal Key Integ...

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