Why isn’t there more love in the world? Here’s Tara Seals with a kiss: Wi-Fi just became a little less safe. … Previously, an attacker would need to wait for someone to log into a network capture the four-way handshake. Jens Steube, creator of the open-source software, said the new technique … would potentially allow someone to get all the information they need to brute-force decrypt a Wi-Fi password. technique specifically works against … Wi-Fi networks with PMKID-based roaming features enabled … using IEEE 802.11i/p/r protocols. What’s the craic? Shaun Nichols- Cracking the passwords of some WPA2 Wi-Fi networks just got easier: The folks behind the password-cracking tool Hashcat claim they've found a new way to crack some wireless network passwords in far less time … by snooping on a single data packet going over the air. Not to mention: What if Hitler didn’ t invade Russia?… PMKID vuln in PSK nets
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. In this week’s Security Blogwatch, we’re in your GPUs, hashing your cats. So a hacker can capture a ton of WPA2 traffic, take it away, and decrypt it offline. It’s now much easier to grab the hashed key. Wi-Fi encryption developed yet another chink in its armor this week.
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