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Displaying items by tag: WPA

Thursday, 03 July 2014 12:54

'Warbiking' mission shows Sydneysiders need to do more

A Sydney 'warbiking' mission has revealed almost one-third of 34,476 wireless networks in central Sydney had no security encryption or were using easily broken WEP.

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Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:16

Major security hole in most modern wireless routers

If your wireless router supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup turn it off immediately (if you can).

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Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:52

Android security hole - an update

Despite resolving the issue of how the tablet acquired the WiFi credentials raised in the previous tale, there are still significant issues regarding the storage of such information in a cloud environment.

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Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:03

Android has a huge security hole

It appears that Android stores SSIDs and WPA encryption keys on Google's servers and links them to users' Google accounts. So much for "don't be evil!" [Updated]

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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 04:39

Every BigPond Speedtouch router WiFi password vulnerable

A big pong may be set to erupt over an incredibly serious WiFi router password vulnerability baked into all BigPond Thomson Speedtouch routers.

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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 07:55

The case for open firmware

If you’re a gadget junkie like me your house is probably similarly littered with devices that did a job once, and could still do so much more, if only the vendors kept them up with the times. Join with me in lobbying for open source firmware.

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Thursday, 27 August 2009 18:20

Got a minute? It's now enough time to crack WPA

WEP was cracked and rendered effectively pointless within a few years of its introduction. High hopes were held for WPA, but those hopes are now well-and-truly dashed.

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Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:10

WiFi password cracking with ATI and NVIDIA

WiFi encryption has just got even less secure now that the Russians reckon you can crack WPA and WPA2 passwords with both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards.

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Saturday, 13 December 2008 17:57

Sony bringing iPod Touch clone to market at CES?

An online report from “Sony Insider” quotes an unnamed Sony insider saying an OLED based thin touch screen Walkman will debut at CES 2009 in Las Vegas with up to 32GB of memory, but if it’s only a player and not a handheld computer like the iPod Touch, will anyone buy it?

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Friday, 07 November 2008 18:30

WPA is Broken. Be Afraid, be Very Afraid

Researchers claim to have cracked the Wireless Protection Access (WPA) standard. Their results are due to be announced at the upcoming PacSec conference on November 12th and 13th in Tokyo, Japan. The paper has also been submitted to WiSec 2009 Zurich.

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Saturday, 11 October 2008 16:18

WiFi encryption cracked by Russians using Nvidia graphics cards

A Russian password recovery outfit has announced a patent pending technology that dramatically accelerates the brute-force cracking of WiFi security encryption when a compatible Nvidia graphics card is employed. So, is WiFi security now a dead duck?

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