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Verizon MiFi Owned By Simple Attack

Posted by timothy on from the changing-the-default-seems-smart dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Security researcher Joshua Wright has developed a simple attack that allows him to recover the passwords for any Verizon MiFi device. The MiFi is essentially a tiny, portable wireless AP, and Wright's attack uses a simple and effective technique to get default passwords by using the device's SSID and some existing password attacks on the encryption protocols the MiFi employs. Result: complete 0wnage of any MiFi."

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  1. Slightly misleading title by Scorpion_1169 · · Score: 5, Informative

    To clarify, this exploit is only for the configuration as shipped from the factory. Just like most consumer routers, you can reconfigure the SSID and WPA-PSK values via a web interface.

  2. "Owned" by N0Man74 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really? Headlines with "owned" and summaries with "ownage"?

    Did we go from "News for Nerds" to "News for Teenage Online Gamers" recently, or would that require taking it one step further and using the "Pwn" form of the word. Maybe we should sprinkle in a "MiFi Fail!" in there somewhere too.