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WIFI security and WPA encryption cracked in under 60 seconds. For those wanting to provide WIFI to clients or if you have WIFI in the business then security that is appropriate should be looked into. WPA2 would be the preferred encryption method and a system for public WIFI that does not allow network sharing.
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October 13th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hey Marketinggeeks. I have just been catching up on your podcasts and thought I could add a bit of value to the wifi discussion. As you mentioned there was a big scare re WPA being hackable in under 60 seconds. This is true however the nature of the attack is that only certain packets (ARP packets I think) can be captured and these don’t really mean that there is a significant chance that there is a way to ‘break into your system.’ In practice in fact, this is only a theoretical hack as there is no value in capturing this data, so nobody would bother doing it.
What it does mean is that although there is no immediate danger, you should be looking to WPA2 in the near future as there are no hacks for this at the moment.
Hope that helps!