If you are reading this, it is doubtful that you left your wireless router on an unprotected mode, without passwords, "linksys" but that does not mean you can not be hacked by your neighbor, or even 10 years of your neighbor child (but must be at least a bit of a prodigy). Dan Goodin reports Ars Technica how he could crack easily (with permission) the wifi password of his neighbor.
He used a tool silica sold for $ 2,500 hacking thread, but could have as easily used a product as freeware Aircrack -NG to capture packets from its Macbook handshake router his neighbor. He then sent those files to pcap CloudCracker a service that will check a database of 604 million words and try to get access to the astronomical cost of ... $ 17. Unfortunately for Dan the 604 million words were not enough so he had to go to the premium 1.2 billion words in the dictionary to double the cost, $ 34. The list of premium word went around, and he had access to WIFI his neighbor. It took 89 minutes and $ 34 to enter.
On another topic Dan test had problems getting along with this CloudCracker service. How was this neighbor can defeat this cracking service? He used "a lower case letter followed by two digits, followed by five other lowercase letters." Mix of alpha and numeric characters, it is that simple. While it is always possible to brute force a password hassles sufficient time is quite likely to make the occasional thief WIFI move to their next target. Even when the mix of alpha and numeric characters, it is always good to change your password every few months.
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