Kurtis Peterson wrote:
>Which WEP are you using? How many bits? ASCII or Hex? Which OS did
>he run the cracker on?
>
>On 4/5/06, Howard R. Hamilton <Howard.Hamilton@bogend.ca> wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings!
>>
>>I just had a fellow from some mining survey company walk into the town
>>office at LeRoy, and use a password cracker for WEP wireless encryption
>>that opened things up in about 3 minutes. Does anyone have an idea of
>>what he used, and what is needed to defend against this sort of tool?
>>
>>BUZ
>>
>>
D-Link standard 128 bit WEP with 13 character ASCII password. Password
has U/L case and digits.
The cracker was using a win XP machine. He was not too computer savvy.
His IT guy (company that is spending a couple million doing a survey for
the Chinese in our area) set him up with an "any idiot can do this"
program for hacking WIFI systems.
BUZ
Received on Wed Apr 5 11:39:51 2006
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