There are thus various entry points for the WPA2 protocol, which the team details in their paper. In the meantime, users should continue to use the strongest encryption protocol available with the ...

New method makes cracking WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi network passwords easier and faster Your email has been sent Major password-cracking tool, Hashcat, found a simpler way to ...

A few weeks ago, the folks at Elcomsoft announced the firm had enhanced what it calls a password-recovery tool by allowing WPA (WiFi Protected Access) and WPA2 passphrases to be brute-force cracked ...

Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA's CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now, but it looks like the latest version of the cracking utility ...

I was playing around with Vista via Boot Camp, decided I didn't like it, so I nuked the drive today and reinstalled with just one OS X partition from the original DVDs that came with my Macbook Pro.

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A researcher investigating strengths and weaknesses of the new WPA3 Wi-Fi standard accidentally discovered a new way to attack networks protected by the widespread WPA2 standard (WPA2 was introduced ...

The WPA2 protocol has some problems—a potentially major issue, if that’s your only source of security. WPA2 is the security protocol for Wi-Fi. It replaced WEP, which was hacked many years ago. While ...

A key reinstallation attack vulnerability in the WPA2 wi-fi protocol has been made public today. Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef has identified what he dubs a “serious weakness” in the wireless ...