It’s been over two years now since presentation and tools related to WEP and WPA keys cracking began to appear all over the internet and print media, tools for auditing wireless networks, tools for security auditing and of course tools for educational purpose only, over a period of time, this tools got updated to better and more features.
Even after frequent reminders about implication of WEP vulnerabilities, many administrators are still implementing WEP or Dictionary based passwords in case of WPA. My recent post about WPA Crack demonstrates the flaw of a weak password in WPA implementation.
The point I am making here is even though manufacturers for various wifi devices are aware of this facts why are they still shipping their products with weak authentication protocols, I am sure it wont take another round of a VC funding for updating firmware. As for today’s scenario all it takes is to make WPA2 the only available authentication available in those devices, with option of numerical and character based password to avoid a dictionary based attacks.
But then if there are no viruses there won’t be any anti virus in market, likewise many alternative devices and solutions have pop up lately for wifi security.
I Guess It should be mandatory for manufactures of wifi devices to comply with a strict policy of updating their products and firmware specially incase of products concern with first line of defense of a network.
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