Windows 10: New Wi-Fi attack cracks WPA2 passwords with ease

Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-wi...rds-with-ease/

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WPA2 Vulnerability Found

Did I not read, the attack is required to have the password in the first instance, i.e. it's not a case of password cracking to gain access, rather, someone already in the wi-fi 'domain' subsequently performing the encryption side stepping hack?

 

Trouble Changing Wi-Fi Password


I've been following the following steps to change my Wi-Fi password for some time:

• Launch Control Panel.
• Click "Network and Internet."
• Click "Network and Sharing Center."
• Click "Wi-Fi...."
• Click "Wireless Properties."
• Click the Security tab.
• Check "Show characters."
• Enter the password in "Network security key."

Those steps have been working just fine, but today I discovered a new wrinkle. If I change the password inside the router first, "Wi-Fi..." doesn't appear in step 4. This isn't much of a problem at home, because I can just change the password in Control Panel before I change it inside the router, but it would be a problem at a public hotspot, or something of that nature. I also tested Brink's instructions in "How to Connect To a Wireless Network in Windows 10," but they don't work for me either. How can I fix this?

 

A cloud service to crack WPA/WPA2

this cloud is not doing the same thing that your security company did. there are a few different ways to crack WPA2, this is just a simple large word list.
your security company would not have tried to crack it via a password list if it was long and complex. there is simply to many variations... the word list would be MASSIVE.... over petabytes...... (50 million average words in a .txt file comes 300-500mb uncompressed)


the last time i checked, a GTX260 did about 120000 passwords per second... if you had a complex password just 8 charactors long it would take over 1933 years to break.
or if it was not so complex, just letters and numbers, 59 years.

if you clustered a lot of GPUs together then you may get the time to crack down to a resonable scale.