Easily break WPA wireless security
German computer security expert, Thomas Roth, announced that he developed software that enables relatively easy and inexpensive cracking for security wireless network codes protected by WPA-PSK standard.
In fact, Roth has developed software that can run on Amazon’s service in the cloud – Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With this service, the users can rent part of supercomputers power at very affordable prices. With that kind of power (the system can check approx. 400.000 codes / per second), breaking the security wireless codes will only last 6 minutes.
Roth plan to publish its software and to present more details at Black Hat conference, which takes place this month in San Francisco. But he explain that the goal is not aimed to produce more criminal activities but to draw attention to the weaknesses of wireless networks and security and to change the myth about impossibility or high cost for breaking WPA protection.
