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08-30-2014, 12:49 PM
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Offline attack shows Wi-Fi routers still vulnerable (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNGXsvswR4hNQc9L0BwyTERjCh-NqA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=18cBVODHMaTFmAKyiIGACA&url=http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/offline-attack-shows-wi-fi-routers-still-vulnerable/)
Ars Technica
The attack exploits weak randomization, or the lack of randomization, in a key used to authenticate hardware PINs on some implementations of Wi-Fi Protected Setup, allowing anyone to quickly collect enough information to guess the PIN using offline ...





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