Was about midnight, and I was surfing the web as I typically do.

Noticed the WiFi was showing a lot of activity (the antenna symbol LED very active), which seemed unusual. My PC is connected to the router via hardwire, so know it couldn't be me.

Did a walk around the house. Everyone was asleep, and I verified all the devices that could be ( Read more... )

It is very easy to hack into a wireless connection, even if it is using WEP or WPA ( Read more... )

Attended the SGVLUG general meeting last night at Cal Tech. Was a very interesting presentation.  The guest speaker presented about how eazy it was to compromise WiFi even if the connection was using WEP or WPA.

The exploits used publically available software, and a simple everday laptop.

For WEP it just took a few minutes to brute force caculate the ( Read more... )