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Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: Security Expert
- davepm 16y agobeen used plenty of times by others for the same purpose ;)
- iuguy 16y agoActually we've tried this out with the new GPU instances. Previously we had to run large instances with various degrees of kludges for different crackers, but the GPU instances really ratchet things up.
- trotsky 16y agoI'm going to let reuters know that I have figured out a quick and inexpensive way to use my Apple laptop to crack their windows password. Maybe they'll ring up Cupertino for a reaction? Others that are complicit in this notorious plan: Intel, Nvidia, Linux Torvalds, PG&E.
- watty 16y agoMore cloud fluff. Yes, cracking a pre-shared key requires a lot of processing. The more computers working on this, the less time required.
- tomerico 16y agoI wonder what is the cost to crack a single WIFI password
- burgerbrain 16y agoUsing Molly Marlinspike's (already released) service: 17USD to 35USD, depending on how fast you want it done.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoNew formula for news story headline: Famous-Company blah blah Cloud blah blah Scary-Stuff blah blah Somebody Important "Microsoft's new Cloud Service can be used to design nuclear weapons: UN Expert" "Rackspace Cloud used by terrorists: TSA Official Claims" We can do a million of these.
- burgerbrain 16y agoSeriously old news: http://www.wpacracker.com/ http://www.wpacracker.com/ Run by hacker Molly Marlinspike (thoughtcrime.org).
- pluies 16y agoAnd yet this is still a brute force (or dictionary) attack. WPA-PSK is still secure as long as you're using a long-enough, randomly generated secret.