There was an article in the Wall St. Journal about a week ago concerning how hackers cracked the point-of-sale network of TJ Max, that was only secured using WEP, and downloaded a huge number of valid credit card numbers and have done a huge amount of fraud with them.
Fred Holmes At 03:49 PM 5/9/2007, mike wrote: >WEP has been a problem since it was created really, but recently it had >gotten worse. > >Mike > >On 5/9/07, MrMike6by9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a poor >>soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and someone >>cracked it and used his connection to download child porn. The upshot >>was that the owner of network was sentenced to 5 years per image. The >>object lesson is that WEP can be cracked with relative ease these days >>by monitoring packet traffic. >> >>[quote] >>Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you >>think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a >>common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two >>minutes. A team at the Technische Universität Darmstadt said that they >>can grab the key with a 95 percent probability of success in as little >>as two minutes using a 1.7GHz Pentium-M machine to do the >>calculations. >>[unquote] >> >> >>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070404-new-attack-cracks-wep-in-record-time.html >> >>> Subject: Wireless Printer Server Connectivity Issue >>> >>> I have an Actiontec DSL modem/router set up with 128 bit WEP. For that, >>I just type in a 26-digit hex key. I am now trying to connect a Netgear >>wireless printer driver, but the WEP screen has four keys, the option to >>type in a passphrase to generate the keys, and the option for public or >>shared-key access. I have tried all the permutations that I can think of >>and still can't get the two boxes to talk to each other. >>> >> >>-- >>"So it goes" >>- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) >> >> >>************************************************************************ >>* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== >>* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== >>* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name >>* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST >>* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L >>* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress >>* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>************************************************************************ >>* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >>* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived >>************************************************************************ > > >************************************************************************ >* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== >* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== >* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name >* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST >* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L >* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress >* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ >* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived >************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
