electronista.com - 8/28/2009
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Japanese researchers today revealed that they have developed a crack that can break WPA (Wireless Protected Access) encryption on a Wi-Fi network within a minute. Kobe University's Masakatu Morii and Hiroshima University's Toshihiro Ohigashi togethe...
tech.yahoo.com - 8/27/2009
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tech.yahoo.com —
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a
way to break the WPA encryption system used in...
wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that ...
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New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by ...
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Redes WiFi con protección WPA crackeadas en menos de un minuto
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... cuestión de tiempo. Los desarrolladores de este crack fueron Toshihiro Ohigashi y Masakatu Morii de las universidades de Hiroshima y Kobe respectivamente, desde ahora, héroes.
¿Esta tu red WiFi en peligro? No. ¿Tengo que cambiar la contraseña de mi router WiFi? Tampoco, lo que tienes que hacer aceptar que si alguien, con los conocimientos necesarios quiere accede a tu red WiFi, podrá. Pero claro, cuanto más difícil se lo pongas, mejor.
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