Last January 3, I requested to the developers of another penetration testing distro which is BackBox Linux that reaver (WiFI Protected Setup Attack Tool) should be added as one of the tools of the said distro. Then, on January 09; one of the developers of BackBox replied to my post…
Reaver version 1.3 Released – Updated Brute Force Attacker against Wifi Protected Setup
Just today, Tactical Network Solutions has released the updated version of Reaver which is version 1.3. The new version “implements the short DH key optimizations described in the original vulnerability release paper, which reduces computation time on the target AP and increases the attack speed.” You can download the latest…
Setting Up Reaver, the WiFi Protected Setup Attack Tool
Security Experts has discovered that WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) is vulnerable and not secured because if an attacker tries to bruteforce an Access Point(AP) within his range, the attacker may be able to recover the WPA/WPA2 passphrase in 4-10 hours but it also depends on the AP. They also found…