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Turbo-charged wireless hacking threatens networks

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 08:31 AM

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The latest graphics cards have been used to break Wi-Fi encryption far quicker than was previously possible. Some security consultants are already suggesting the development blows Wi-Fi security out of the water and that corporations out to apply tighter VPN controls, or abandon wireless networks altogether, in response...Russian firm ElcomSoft has applied GPU acceleration technology to its password recovery tool to allow PCs or servers running supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than is possible by using conventional microprocessors...

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