Reset your routers...
Aug. 28th, 2009 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxFor those of you with WiFi routers, it's time to make sure you're using WPA2 security:
WEP encryption was cracked a long time ago, and people moved across to WPA.
Now, on the back of theoretical work last year, a team of Japanese computer scientists claim they can crack WPA in 60 seconds.
The attack only works on WPA, and not WPA2, so if your router and clients support it, I'd suggest that you move on up, as it were. And even if the scientists aren't making their methodology public just yet, the fact that it can be done means that it won't be long before this work gets replicated in the wild.
I'm guessing that I'm going to have to revise my parentally-aimed analogy:
Me? I turned WiFi off. Now, where'd I put that tin-foil hat?
WEP encryption was cracked a long time ago, and people moved across to WPA.
Now, on the back of theoretical work last year, a team of Japanese computer scientists claim they can crack WPA in 60 seconds.
The attack only works on WPA, and not WPA2, so if your router and clients support it, I'd suggest that you move on up, as it were. And even if the scientists aren't making their methodology public just yet, the fact that it can be done means that it won't be long before this work gets replicated in the wild.
I'm guessing that I'm going to have to revise my parentally-aimed analogy:
- WPA - that's like parking your car in a dodgy area;
- WEP - that's parking the car with the doors unlocked;
- No Encryption - that's parking the car with the door open and the keys in the ignition.
Me? I turned WiFi off. Now, where'd I put that tin-foil hat?
