Distributed Password Cracking Tool for WPA/WPA2
Russian security company Elcomsoft just posted a press release (original PDF) detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys:
With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power [...]
Concerns: More on Password Cracking
I was talking with a coworker the other day about password cracking and I wanted to write up another post regarding that conversation and Michael Coates comments on a previous article that I wrote.
http://secauditor.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/what-is-more-important-password-expiration-complexity-or-something-else/
There are two main areas that must be looked at anytime an organization enters into password cracking. First is the [...]
