WPA Encryption No Longer Secure
Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe.
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7.11.2008 WPA crack details revealed
German researchers have published a paper that claims to give details of how to crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard.
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12.11.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009Fifteen minutes to crack WPA protocol, says researcher
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is considered a superior encryption protocol to the aged and inherently flawed WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), but it is
not without its vulnerability, as one researcher is preparing to demonstrate...
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06.11.2008WPA is going the way of WEP, cracked in 15 minutes flat
According to
PC World the days of securing your WIFI network using Wi-Fi Protected Access
(WPA) may be over, as researcher Erik Tews will show how he was able to crack WPA encryption in around 15 minutes at a the Tokyo
PacSec Conference in two weeks time.
WPA was designed to overcome the insecurities in
hacked Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) which can be hacked in a few minutes using a modern laptop.
Erik Tews will be demonstrating how he
cracked the WPA encryption to read the data being sent from a router to a laptop.
To read the data being sent Tews found a way to crack
the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key without resorting to using a dictionary attack which, security experts have agreed that the protocol
might be vulnerable too.
Although this is a big step Tews was still unable to crack the keys used to encrypt the data being sent back to the
router from the laptop.
If the demonstration lives up to its headline then the days of WPA look to be numbered. This would come as a big
blow to both consumers and corporations alike.
WPA is the most common standard of encryption in uses but, there is also a newer more
secure standard WPA2, (which uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and is unaffected), although support is still patchy. Consumer may find they are
forced to still rely on the now unsecure WPA encryption to connect their devices to the network.
For Business this is even bigger headache.
The TJ Maxx chain had hundreds of millions of customer details stolen due in part to the fact that they were still using the cracked WEP standard.
It’s easy to see a situation where hackers may try to do the same using WPA forcing corporate users to VPN or WPA2 dumping devices that
can’t support these protocols.
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06.11.2008GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream
The once thought 8 character length password may no longer be safe, after the GPU-accelerated password recovery attack can break weak WPA/WPA-2 PSK
passwords. The Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor mentioned that its software can work completely off-line and find passwords by analyzing a dump of
network communications, and display them in plain-text. The Wireless Security Auditor does require the source of a valid log of wireless
communication. Experts have urged IT managers to move from 8 character WMP passwords to 12 or 15, in a quote from David Hobson: "It's a
wake-up call to IT managers, pure and simple. IT managers should now move to 12 and even 16 character keys as a matter of urgency.
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24.01.2009FreeBSD 6.0 Heads Out the Door
The FreeBSD Project on Friday
heralded the 6.0 release of
its venerable Unix based
operating system. FreeBSD 6.0
brings to the table a number
of improvements over version
5, including a multithreaded
filesystem to speed up disk
access, and expanded support
for wireless networking and
the WPA protocol...
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05.11.2005WiFi flu: viral router attack could hit whole cities
Historically, the vast majority of trojans, worms, and viruses have targeted the (Windows) PC. Attack and propagation methods may have grown more
sophisticated, but the PC has remained the focus of most malware. According to a paper written by a team of researchers at Indiana University,
however, this could change in the future. According to the team's
research (PDF), an attack that specifically targets wireless routers and spreads between them at any point where coverage
overlaps could quickly and easily propagate throughout an entire city.
Until recently, such an attack vector was considered
unlikely. Wireless routers are inherently less secure than their wired counterparts, but the development of WPA encryption has increased (theoretical)
wireless security significantly. More practically, wireless routers weren't deployed in sufficient numbers and didn't overlap their areas of
coverage enough to present a significant propagation risk.
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03.01.2008That Wi-Fi network you thought was secure? it ain't
Businesses using some of the more advanced methods for securing connections to Wi-Fi access points need to take a hard look at the configuration
settings of client computers. So say researchers who have documented a simple way to impersonate trusted networks.
The attack
works on access points that use the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in concert with Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) or other
so-called Extensible Authentication Protocols (EAPs). Such technologies use public-key certificates to authenticate a trusted network to a laptop or
other connected device and provide an encrypted SSL tunnel through which the two can communicate.
Problem is, laptops running
Windows, OS X and various versions of Linux frequently have the security settings mis-configured, according to researchers Brad Antoniewicz and Josh
Wright. Using a program called
FreeRADIUS-WPE (short for
FreeRADIUS Wireless Pwnage Edition), it's easy to dupe the clients into connecting to imposter networks and giving up critical information, they
say.
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27.02.2008Report: Home networking still too complex for most users
Home networking is "pretty dismal for the average consumer," and complexity and DRM issues are limiting the growth of the market. That's the word
from research firm Gartner, which recently released a report looking at the "Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies."
Gartner
Research VP Van L. Baker believes that most consumers are unwilling to deal with the complexities of setting the SSID or enabling WPA encryption on
their wireless router. He says that most consumers have a basic idea of what they would like to do with their home network, which includes sharing
music and movies among various computers and devices. Baker calls the complexity of setting up a home network to share files, music and videos "the
elephant in the room that no-one wants to talk about."
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22.08.2007WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection
WiFi is no longer secure enough to protect wireless data.
Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian's firm's use of the latest
NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery' times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi's WPA and
WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.
David Hobson, managing director of GSS, claimed that companies can
no longer view standards-based WiFi transmission as sufficiently secure against eavesdropping to be used with impunity. He also said that the use of
VPNs is arguably now mandatory for companies wanting to comply with the Data Protection Act.
He said: “This breakthrough in brute
force decryption of WiFi signals by Elcomsoft confirms our observations that firms can no longer rely on standards-based security to protect their
data. As a result, we now advise clients using WiFi in their offices to move on up to a VPN encryption system as well.
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10.10.2008Defcon 2007: The Wi-Fi honeypot from hell
Wireless security researchers
are probably reaching for the
digital Pepto-Bismol after
they slurped down gigabytes of
valuable traffic at the
recently completed Defcon
security convention in Las
Vegas. A group of wireless
hackers calling themselves the
śChurch of the WiFiť built a
multi-router honeypot which
captured gigabytes worth of
port scans, man in the middle
attacks and even some zero-day
techniques.
The honeypot was made from
eight Linksys wireless routers
“ the same kind you would find
at the local retail store “
along with Linksys switches.
The routers were set to cover
separate wi-fi channels and
fed the data into the switches
and out to a computer
sniffer.
Security researcher Rick
Mellendick built the honeypot
as part of a wireless
challenge that pitted
participants against a heavily
fortified web server. By
hacking through tiers of
security like WEP and WPA,
Mellendick hoped that
attendees could build up
valuable hacking skills.
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07.08.2007NVIDIA announces investment effort for GPU-based computing startups
NVIDIA is known primarily for their PC graphics cards, but they’ve been in the news recently both for the expansion of their
CUDA and
PhysX initiatives as well as (allegedly)
developing a CPU to challenge
Intel and AMD. They’ve been proponents of parallel processing for quite a while, naturally, and have made some investments in companies like
MotionDSP and
Elemental Technologies, both of which are developing software that really leverages the
GPU...
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10.03.2009Windows 7: Superbar Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7 Tips and Tricks Windows 7: HomeGroup
Overview Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action
Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage
Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7
networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net.
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15.01.2009Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric
improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control
(UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the
next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the
ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of HomeGroup in Windows 7.
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13.01.2009Windows 7 Beta 1 Vs Windows Vista Vs Windows XP
After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting
about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its successors Windows
Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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03.01.2009Windows 7: Vista Upgrade & Anytime Upgrade overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview Windows 7:
BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows
7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet
Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media
enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Windows Vista to Windows 7 Beta upgrade.
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13.01.2009Windows 7: Easy Connect overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7:
User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer
8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Easy Connect in Windows 7.
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11.01.2009Windows Live Strategy Inches Forward, Slowly
Microsoft is continuing to
flesh out its Windows Live
strategy, on Wednesday
releasing beta versions of
Windows Live Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Folders. The
additions will join Windows
Live Mail Desktop, Windows
Live Writer, and a number of
other applications as part of
the Windows Live Suite...
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28.06.2007Windows 8 already cooking, beyond Windows 7
After almost 3 years since Microsoft released Windows Vista, we are now heading for a wonderful release of Windows 7, the next version of Windows OS.
Windows 7 RC is expected to be released next month, April 10th. But, what about the next version of Windows OS? Let us call it Windows 8 for now.
Soni Meinke, a senior program manager in the Windows Server group in an interview with Channel 9 revealed very little info that the next version of
Windows OS is already in its planning stage and her work being engaging with various customers and partners, she is already discussing the plan and
strategy around them.
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12.03.2009Windows Mobile being rebranded as Windows and Windows Phone?
With few hours for the Mobile World Congress to start, we already have snaps of Microsoft stand and Windows Mobile banners showing up. Microsoft is
expected to announce various mobile offerings and also unveil its newer version of Windows Mobile, which is Windows Mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World
Congress. There is one thing to note once you see these snaps, a very important thing Below are some snaps As you may have guessed it
already, its Windows and not Windows Mobile in those banners! Is Microsoft rebranding their Windows Mobile to Windows and call it Windows Phone?
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16.02.2009What do you want to know about Windows 7?
We're going to be sitting down shortly with Mike Nash, Vice President of Windows Product Management, who heads up Windows 7 development. Now that the
news and screenshots are out there, what else do you want to know about Windows 7?..
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28.10.2008Microsoft confirms Windows 7 downgrade rights
TechARP had been constantly giving updates on the Windows 7 Downgrade Rights Program all these days. Now Microsoft has confirmed the same in a blog
post, regarding Windows 7 Downgrade rights program. Users can downgrade to Windows XP and Windows Vista from Windows 7 via OEMs for 6 months after
Windows 7 General Availability. For customers and businesses running Windows XP, Microsoft still recommends an upgrade to Windows Vista before moving
onto upgrading Windows 7.
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