New method makes cracking WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi network passwords easier and faster Your email has been sent Major password-cracking tool, Hashcat, found a simpler way to ...

The new strategy allows an attacker to instead lift ID information directly from the router, within minutes. Legacy WiFi just became a little less safe, according to Jens Steube, the developer of the ...

We're not sure what's more frightening about this, the fact that the Russians figured out how to do it or that WiFi networks are effectively now completely insecure. ElcomSoft claims they can "recover ...

A few weeks ago, the folks at Elcomsoft announced the firm had enhanced what it calls a password-recovery tool by allowing WPA (WiFi Protected Access) and WPA2 passphrases to be brute-force cracked ...

Researchers at Belgium's University of Leuven have uncovered as many as 10 critical vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure WiFi networks. The vulnerabilities ...