Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we've got other cracking options—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all ...

Wireless security protocol, WEP, is everywhere in Wi-Fi networks and just got quicker and easier for hackers to break into. Researchers have discovered a new way of ...

[Ben Kurtz] is doing a little WEP cracking but in a bit of a different way than we’re used to. WEP cracking makes us think of war driving; driving around with your laptop open, looking for WiFi access ...

[Martin Beck] and [Erik Tews] have just released a paper covering an improved attack against WEP and a brand new attack against WPA(PDF). For the WEP half, they offer a nice overview of attacks up to ...

I'm taking an intro to networks(osi layers,tcp/ip, wireless, hardware etc) and a security class. The teacher is pretty tough but I'm learning fast. However, he has offered an instant A in the security ...

Curiosity question:<BR><BR>I've got an old laptop with my Cisco 350 card running Airsnort to try to crack my home's 11b wireless network. My roommate has a Netgear ME102 AP and he and my other ...

I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? WEP has been generally recognized as broken since 2001 when Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir, commonly known as FMS, published their paper ...

Vivek Ramachandran and Md Sohail Ahmad, senior wireless security researchers at AirTight Networks, said they will reveal (at TOORCON9 in San Diego, Ca) that laptops don't need to be logged into a ...