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WEP And PPTP Password Crackers Released

Posted by timothy on from the be-worried dept.

Jacco de Leeuw writes "SecurityFocus published an article by Michael Ossmann that discusses the new generation of WEP cracking tools for 802.11 wireless networks. These are much faster as they perform passive statistical analysis. In many cases, a WEP key can be determined in minutes or even seconds. For those who have switched to PPTP for securing their wireless nets: Joshua Wright released a new version of his Cisco LEAP cracker called Asleap which can now also recover weak PPTP passwords. Both LEAP and PPTP employ MS-CHAPv2 authentication." Update: 12/22 00:14 GMT by T : Michael Ossmann wrote to point out his last name has two Ns, rather than one.

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  1. Hmm heres a thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Starbucks - now without the crappy coffee!

  2. Re:But nobody can crack my Slashdot password by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    penis is not a secure password

  3. old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is very old, I read this on securityfocus about a week ago.

  4. Re:But nobody can crack my Slashdot password by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1? Why would anyone want to?

  5. Re:But nobody can crack my Slashdot password by yogikoudou · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I got that message last time I tried to use it :Sorry, password isn't long enough

  6. Re:But nobody can crack my Slashdot password by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And if it is, it's not long enough. ;-)

  7. In soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The newly released NetBSD confirms wireless security is dead!

  8. Re:But nobody can crack my Slashdot password by spectrokid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But in south Korea, only old people use WEP anyway!!!

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