quatrixPremium
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kudos:2 | Don't fuel the paranoia Most people don't have teams of Japanese scientists sitting in their driveways trying to hack into their routers. |
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| said by quatrix:Most people don't have teams of Japanese scientists sitting in their driveways trying to hack into their routers. No they don't. But these scientists are going to publish HOW anyone can do the same thing. So some hacker who reads about this can certainly use the tools that will be created by some hacker group to automate the process so that some script kiddie can break in to systems.
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It's still a very valid security concern. It's not only individuals but entire institutions that often use outdated encryption standards for their WiFi networks. For example, the Dept. of Education here in NYC uses WEP keys for the WiFi in almost every public school in the city. Yep, no WPA. Throw in high school students walking around the place with laptops running Kismet/Aircrack, and you have a security nightmare. And I didn't even get into how entire username/password hashes aren't even shadowed properly on the school SSH server......
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We don't know how it's done yet. The current method for cracking WPA is pretty much a dictionary attack so we don't know if they found a new way or an improved way. |
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quatrixPremium
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kudos:2 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Most people don't have hackers sitting in their driveways either, and they'd go after less-protected systems first anyway. |
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