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Looking to Generate Higher Security passwords?

Posted October 20th, 2008 by admin

As was mentioned this week WPA and WPA2 passwords can now be cracked much faster.
Well the good folks at Big Blue & Cousins: The Greater Victoria PC Users’ Assoc. submitted this helpful site:
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm will automatically generate an extremely secure password. Write it down somewhere, these onese aren’t easy to remember.

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WPA2 wireless secure? Not so fast…

Posted October 20th, 2008 by admin

Looks like WPA and WPA2 have a new threat: the graphics card.
Elcomsoft have been breaking WPA passwords for a while now, but they have figured out a technique to use the graphics cards that will speed up the process by 100X. That makes a task that takes days can now take hours.
So what does that [...]

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