Weak Airport Encryption Cracked!

[AppleMatt]

http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8773/

A well known firms popular wireless product has a fundamental security flaw. They wish to discover the implications to their customers of such a flaw. Discuss.

AppleMatt (Done lots of essays today)

 

[Sun Baked]

I don't see anything about weak "Airport Encryption"...

Apple AirPort Base Station Weak Password Encryption -- more specifically administrative password via network connection.

 

[Chimaera]

basically its only a problem if you're dumb enough to try to administer the base station over an open network or non-encrypted wireless connection - IE its only a problem if a malicious user can listen in.

 

[AppleMatt]

Originally posted by Sun Baked


I don't see anything about weak "Airport Encryption"...

Apple AirPort Base Station Weak Password Encryption -- more specifically administrative password via network connection.

Yeah I know but I had to grab your attention

AppleMatt

 

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
Yeah I know but I had to grab your attention

AppleMatt

You sly MacRumorer you...

kisMAC can crack the code of an AirPort, but you need thousands of weak packets to open up a 128kpb code.
Weak packets can be collected about every 5 minutes meaning why would you bother...