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All your WPA is belong to us!

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Researchers at Tactical Network Solutions in Maryland on Wednesday released a tool called Reaver that implements an attack on the WPS vulnerability. The company released the tool as an open-source project on Google Code, but also is selling a more advanced commercial version.

"This is a capability that we at TNS have been testing, perfecting and using for nearly a year. But now that this vulnerability has been discussed publicly we have decided to announce and release Reaver, our WPS attack tool, to the open source community. Reaver is capable of breaking WPS pins and recovering the plain text WPA/WPA2 passphrase of the target access point in approximately 4-10 hours (attack time varies based on the access point)," the company said in a blog post.
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/atta ... ity-122911

If you haven't checked the security on your access point in a while, sounds like the time is right.
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Impressive that they are cracking WPA2 that quickly. I've never really cared much for wireless access... Too easy to crack and do other things to <dons tin foil hat>.
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iirc the apple-branded base stations do not use wps... they'll support multi-band wpa/wpa2, but not wps.

based out of columbia, md, eh? :shiftyeyes:
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I disable WPS.
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