Are WiFi Networks Secure?
March 12th, 2009
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Are Wireless Networks Really Secure?
As of late, one of the hot topics in technology has been the discussion about the Wireless Equivalent Protection (WEP) having been broken. It is true that the protocol has effectively been rendered (for all intensive IT security purposes) useless and should be avoided. Researchers at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany have proven that WEP can be broken with as few as 40,000 captured packets. What does this mean to you? An intruder could potentially recover your passkey in a short time and gain access to your WEP-encrypted network.
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