Friday, 23 November 2012

Hexing MAC address reveals Wifi passwords

Researcher says Belkin boxen at risk of simple substitution attack


The default WPA2-PSK passphrase used in some Belkin routers simply replaces a digit of the device’s MAC address with a hecxadecimal character, according to security blogger Jakob Lell.…




via The Register - Networks

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/wifi_passwords_deduced_from_mac_address/

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