Archive for November 7, 2008

WPA Wi-Fi Encryption is Cracked

Nov 7th

Posted by rsivanandan in Attacks/Exploits

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So in the coming weeks, we can see WPA a joke too (just like its predecessor WEP)!

To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according to Dragos Ruiu, the PacSec conference’s organizer.

This is in a way good to know in this way rather than the algorithm broken by the ‘bad guys’. So I welcome it :-)

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I’m sure a lot of enterprise is now looking or in the process of moving to WPA from WEP, this is going to stall some of ‘em.

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Windows Account Lockout Tool

Nov 7th

Posted by rsivanandan in Tools For Life

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As Microsoft says;

Account Lockout Status (LockoutStatus.exe) is a combination command-line and graphical tool that displays lockout information about a particular user account.

 

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