WPA with TKIP Wi-Fi Encryption Hacked!

New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

… attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.

So make sure your router is not using WPA with TKIP and certainly not WEP encryption! If you can, switch to WPA2.

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