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egghead
March 17th, 2005, 05:33 AM
Hackers no longer need to passively wait for legitimate packets on a wireless LAN because they can actively inject packets into a wireless LAN to ensure a speedy packet collection session. The end result is, any WEP based network with or without Dynamic WEP keys can now be cracked in minutes!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=41

Source Warp2Search News (http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22497)

So my Linksys WRT54G only uses wep encryption for security so does this mean the router is owned?
Curio
March 17th, 2005, 23:18 PM
It's a good job we all use mac filtering then.
egghead
March 18th, 2005, 00:36 AM
It's a good job we all use mac filtering then.

yes mac filtering is enabled but do you know if there is firmware to support other encryption methods?

I would like the hardware to do this.
rik
March 18th, 2005, 01:53 AM
Turn off Broadcast AND use MAC filtering.
cash_site
March 18th, 2005, 03:45 AM
It's a good job we all use mac filtering then.
Yes... yes MAC filtering...

*runs downstairs to router*

... Yeah, Its good job we use Mac filtering :D