Re: WEP Password Cracker

Probably Airsnort or Kismet then ... WPA is more secure but I find the
best is to enable MAC address filtering :)

On 4/5/06, Howard R. Hamilton <Howard.Hamilton@bogend.ca> wrote:
> 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
>
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Received on Wed Apr 5 12:18:39 2006