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WEP Comprehensibly Slated
Blog It turns out that WEP is even more useless than people previously thought -- according to a paper by researchers at Darmstadt technical university. Building on previous work into cracking WEP encryption, researchers Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann...
[April 4, 2007, 13:33]
A Key Recovery Attack On The 802.11b Wired Equivalent Privacy Protocol (WEP)
White Papers This paper presents a practical key recovery attack on WEP, the link-layer security protocol for 802.11b wireless networks. This paper describes how to apply this aw to breaking WEP, our implementation of the attack, and optimizations that can be...
[October 20, 2005, 0:00]
Wep Key Creator
Downloads Simply enter a word or phrase that you will always remember and a 64, 128, or 256 bit Hex Wep key will be created for you. You can then copy and paste it into your router and/or access profile. Forget your key, simply enter your favourite phrase...
[September 18, 2008, 0:01]
WEP Cloaking - Maximizing ROI From Legacy Wireless LAN
White Papers Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the encryption protocol defined in the original IEEE 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Several known vulnerabilities and attack tools have compromised WEP making it unsuitable for secure...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
WEP And WPA Keygenerator
Downloads WEP and WPA keygenerator is intended to assist you in creating random or custom WEP or WPA keys in order to secure small private wireless networks. It allows you to create 64/128/192/256-bit random or custom WEP keys as well as small/medium/maximum...
[July 24, 2007, 4:16]
Wireless WEP Key Password Spy
Downloads Wireless WEP Key Password Spy will instantly recover all WEP keys and wireless network passwords that have been stored on your computer. To get started, click "Find Wireless WEP Keys". It will then display the adapter GUID and all recovered...
[July 13, 2006, 1:16]
Better Ways Emerge To Protect Wireless Data
News For several years now, the primary security mechanism used between wireless access points and wireless clients has been WEP encryption. The problem is that although WEP encryption strength has increased a few times since Wi-Fi was introduced, the...
[August 20, 2003, 15:20]
WPA Deployment Guidelines For Public Access Wi-Fi Networks
White Papers WPA provides a strong standards-based, interoperable security solution that addresses the known flaws in the original WEP security mechanism. Cryptographers have reviewed Wi-Fi Protected Access and have verified that it meets its claims to close...
[July 23, 2008, 1:04]
Cisco Wireless Access Point (Aironet 1100 Series)
Forum I have been lucky enough to gain possesion of a Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Access Point, however I intend on using it on a business network and WEP is simply not good enough. The access point has a number of wireless security protocols including...
[March 10, 2006, 12:45]
Remarkable Product But Insecure In Default Configuration
Member Review WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is disabled by default;
the default administrator ID and password are well known. Consequently, if this is deployed by somebody who doesn't understand the consequences (or how to enable WEP and change the password) it...
[May 25, 2004, 14:24]
Researchers Claim WPA Crack
Blog The crack comes out of the researchers' work on hacking WEP, a protocol now famed for being a bit rubbish. Chopchop is a very old attack on WEP, which allows the decryption of single packet in a WEP protected network without recovering the secret key.
[November 7, 2008, 16:20]
Real Mobile Access
Talkback Besides, WEP is cracked in minutes nowadays. Is there anything better then WEP available nowadays? Mobile access should be what it says. Meaning, mobile access from anywhere, any place, any device. Don't limit yourself to restricted areas that...
[April 23, 2007, 10:05]
Breaking Wireless Keys In A Jimi
Blog It seems that Irish ISP Eircom has been shipping Netopia wireless routers to its punters, and as is common and sensible these days they come with WEP enabled. Eircom decided to generate the WEP key automatically and ship the software that does...
[October 2, 2007, 11:24]
Wi-Fi Hack Caused TK Maxx Security Breach
News TK Maxx's parent company, TJX, had secured its wireless network using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) — one of the weakest forms of security for wireless LANs. According to The Wall Street Journal, hackers cracked the WEP encryption protocol used to...
[May 8, 2007, 16:13]
Per-User Authentication And Key Management In Consumer Wireless Networking
White Papers Almost all current wireless networking employs an implementation of the 802.11 standard; unfortunately, the security aspects of this standard are severely flawed.utilizes an encryption scheme called WEP to provide confidentiality and integrity to...
[May 12, 2006, 1:00]
IDF: Enterprise Wireless Networks Secure At Last?
News Walker was one of the first to uncover the problems in 802.11's Wire Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and thereby technical editor of the TGi working group. This year's system, called SSN but due to be renamed, uses an authentication system called 802.1x...
[September 12, 2002, 8:50]
WPA Crack Details Revealed
News The research paper, Practical attacks against WEP and WPA, was published on Saturday. It gives details of how the researchers used a modified Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) attack against WPA. Tews and Beck concentrated on compromising TKIP, and...
[November 10, 2008, 14:16]
Secure Wi-Fi Hot Spots Rolled Out
News WPA, which is based on the 802.11i standard, encrypts data sent between a user's laptop and the access point, and is more secure than the earlier wireless security protocol WEP which is much more vulnerable to hackers.
[October 5, 2005, 13:05]
Wireless Networks Lure Hackers
News The flaw is the third to be uncovered in the so-called Wired Equivalent Privacy, or WEP, protocol that supposedly secures wireless networks. WEP is inherently insecure," said Newsham. So using WEP is essentially just throwing another barrier--and a...
[July 13, 2001, 9:18]
10 Ways To Wireless Security
News Although most WAPs support the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, it's not enabled by default. WEP has a number of security flaws, and a knowledgeable hacker can crack it, but it's better than no encryption at all.
[September 30, 2005, 15:30]
