Re: [Nolug] [Fwd: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-006A -- Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack]

Ahh....
If that is one of those "one push" security things.... then yes. I've seen
them but never ever even considered using.
Something in my backbone was warning about it.

P

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:

> Petri Laihonen wrote:
> > I've never used such feature.
> > I doubt any of my equipment even supports this.
> >
>
> It's new. I bought an AP recently that has it. It made me laugh.
>
> Truly I don't know why companies or whatever think they can get away
> from flimsy security. Even if this hole didn't exist, a single PIN is
> going to be less secure than an SSID/passphrase pair.
>
> --Joey
>
> > P
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Michael Walker <doublethrow@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Can be cracked in < 11,000 guesses. Nice.
> >>
> >> On a related note:
> >> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Preventing_Brute_Force_Attacks
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike
> >> On Jan 6, 2012 9:12 PM, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 01/06/2012 08:12 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> (WPS) provides simplified mechanisms to blah blah
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Why am I *not* surprised?
> >>>
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