SG News: WiFi security vendors buttress products against WPA crack

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The three leading makers of WiFi intrusion-protection software—designed to detect when bad things are happening to good wireless LANs—say their software can or will detect the attack outlined by researchers Eric Tews and Martin Beck. (See "Battered, but not broken: understanding the WPA crack.") The attack relies on a weakness in the TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) encryption type that's part of the WPA and WPA2 security certification standards. The weakness stems from an flaw in ...

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