Wi-Fi Security as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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920 words · ~4 min read
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it seems like not too long ago that stealing things from the airwaves just
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meant recording radio broadcasts of songs about Barbie girls and wanting it
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that way onto bootleg cassette tapes but now with details of our personal lives
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and billions of dollars worth of transactions constantly being beamed
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around over Wi-Fi securing all of this
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stuff has become a huge priority for more than just Nick Carter well yeah
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lius uh that's what those passwords that
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uh clever people put in place over their wireless networks to keep unwanted
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Intruders from accessing computers and files on the networker for if you got
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one of those you're safe smart guy
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actually you're partly right password protection on your Wi-Fi hotspot is a
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must these days with some places even holding the internet connection owner
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liable for cyber crimes committed through their unsecured access point but
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that's also a gross over simp ification not all passwords are created equal back
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in the early 2000s nearly all routers shipped with a default security scheme
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called we or wired equivalency privacy
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and although it was incredibly widespread thanks to us laws restricting
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the export of cryptographic technology and some short-sighted exploits that
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allowed Brute Force attacks to defeat it quite easily as computing power
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increased it was also incredibly weak if
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you're still using web it's better than nothing but know that it can be broken
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in minutes using free software so this
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led to the development of WPA which introduced much longer encryption keys
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and tkip or temporal key Integrity
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protocol which protected against altered or forged packets and used constantly
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changing keys to dramatically improve the security of the web standard but it
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was merely a temporary solution since the convenience and cost Savings of
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being able to implement it with a firmware update on existing Hardware
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came at a cost it reused some parts of
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web making it highly vulnerable to breach by today's standards and not only
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that but device intercompatibility sucks the big one which leads us to Modern
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wireless encryption the one you should be using unless you have some older
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devices that only support WPA although given that WPA 2 support has been
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mandatory on any device with a Wi-Fi since 2006 there's really not much
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excuse for not swapping out that pocket PC for an iPad or something at this
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point but what does WPA 2 bring to the
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table most importantly the mandatory use
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of the AES or Advanced encryption standard an encryption algorithm so
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strong that it would take a modern computer hundreds or even thousands of
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years to break a 12 character password by brute forcing it which doesn't mean
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it's bulletproof though you know that one button WI
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setup thing WPS it's convenient for home use but turn that crank off for your
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business Network because someone who has previously had access to the network
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let's say for example a disgruntled employee Could Break Your WPA 2 Security
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in a couple of hours and on top of that
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if you're concerned about your personal data being stolen security comes with
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you not just when you're setting up your access point because even the strongest
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encryption in the world between you and an access point can't protect prot you
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if that access point is being operated by someone who wants to get into your
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base and kill your dudes or at least steal your banking information beware of
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public Wi-Fi networks and ensure that whatever you're connecting to belongs to
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