ghacks Technology News

Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access

Wireless Networks are becoming more and more common these days and lots of people are ignoring the fact that they have to secure their wireless lan. Seth Fogie from informit estimates that about 40-50% of all wireless lan users use no protection at all for their network.

The article examines the WPA protection in detail and demonstrates how it can be cracked. The first part gives a good overview of WPA and compares it to WPE. The second part goes into detail how WPA can be cracked.

Enjoyed the article?: Then sign-up for our free newsletter or RSS feed to kick off your day with the latest technology news and tips, or share the article with your friends and contacts on Facebook or Twitter.

Related Articles:

Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networks
Cracking WEP the FBI way
Cracking Windows has never been that easy
Sony to patch copy-protected CD
Copy-protected CDs turning music fans off record buying



About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

Author: , Wednesday December 21, 2005 -
Tags:, , , , , ,


Responses so far:

  1. Brute force says:

    not exactly cracking is it?

    Brute force attacks are known to work on all encryptions but the quantum encryption. Isn’t it?

  2. sham says:

    hello…can i have software for wep n wpa crack ?

Leave a Reply   Follow Ghacks   Subscribe To Comment Rss

Subscribe without commenting

© 2005-2012 Ghacks.net. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - About Us