You use wireless router with WEP encrption? Must Read this!
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October 17, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- If you use a secure wireless network, hackers may be able to steal data from your computer in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee.
At the Toorcon hacking conference in San Diego this coming weekend, security researcher Vivek Ramachandran, will demonstrate a technique he's developed to attack laptops that use the WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption system to log on to secure wireless networks.
Developed in the late 1990s, WEP was the default method of securing Wi-Fi networks. Though the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) system replaced it, about 41 percent of businesses continue to use WEP. That percentage is even higher among home users, security experts say.
That's unfortunate because WEP has been riddled with security problems. In fact, WEP was blamed for the recent TJX Companies Inc. data breach, in which thieves were able to access 45 million credit- and debit-card numbers.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9043019&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top
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Indian Computer geek has cracked the system.......
Now the hacker can enter your system and send threats to the police, government etc...then you get raided by SWAT team......
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October 17, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- A Washington State teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, California's 911 emergency response system and convinced the sheriff's department into storming an area couple's home with a heavily armed SWAT team.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9043098&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top
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I still use wires around the flat........no wireless routers for me.......you how? -
Please, wireless hacking has been present since the day it was born.
And WEP cracking is not new. Anyone with a fast computer can crack that nut in less than 2 hours. I completed mine in that time.
And now WEP cracking takes less than 15 minutes, because of the way the algorithm is constructed. I go find back that article.
Wait ar. -
u mean u didnt noe?
and my computer has nth for dem to steal, unless dey wan to get to noe me better n dats all. -
Nah, the article.
Tools provided as well. I am not responsible for this post.
http://www.warezgarden.com/archives/323 -
Hiphop wrote :
my computer has nth for dem to steal, unless dey wan to get to noe me better n dats all
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Yo hiphop
Hacker can send a bomb threat from your router.........then Police will raid your house....then they find other things in your house......
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Please, hackers these days are after money, not fame. Those that post bomb threats by using someone else's AP is most likely a script kiddie. A script kiddie is easy to track down.Originally posted by Dr Who:Hiphop wrote :
my computer has nth for dem to steal, unless dey wan to get to noe me better n dats all
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Yo hiphop
Hacker can send a bomb threat from your router.........then Police will raid your house....then they find other things in your house......
si--liau
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=130951&WT.svl=news1_1 -
You'll be surprised how many Unsecured Wirless Networks you can detect with your PDA by just standing at the void deck of any HDB estate block...!
I can literally access the router, & lock up access to the Internet for internity & they have to call their ISP down to solve the mysterious lock out...
hehehehee.. 
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And you won't be surprised if some bastard set it up as a trap. You will pwned good time.
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Wonder how they are gonna find out who is it...Originally posted by HyperFocal:You'll be surprised how many Unsecured Wirless Networks you can detect with your PDA by just standing at the void deck of any HDB estate block...!
I can literally access the router, & lock up access to the Internet for internity & they have to call their ISP down to solve the mysterious lock out...
hehehehee.. 
What a joke, that boy who got sentenced for using his neighbour's wireless was caught sitting by the roadside with his LAPTOP!! Not detected through any computer system somemore.
Just make sure you don't make yourself too obvious. Hide your PDA or PSP.