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MMLB: Penetration Testing Edition
By TheEmperor | March 24, 2008
The past week we’ve spent a lot of time around the office doing security testing of our network and passwords. We’ve been using the BackTrack LiveCD to crack our WEP key and some of our passwords. Our main passwords have all stood up to the test, but a few ancillary ones were easily deciphered. In fact, anything less than 8 characters that did not contain numbers, letters, AND symbols was cracked in less than 10 minutes. ANY 128 bit WEP key was cracked in under 5 minutes. Take this as one more reason why everyone should be generating passwords using a Schema as I recommended. It’s also a reason that any Wireless network that needs to be secured should be using WPA2. There’s a ton of great info over at InfoSecInstitute about ethical hacking in general so if you want to learn more I highly recommend them. Insecure.org also has a massive array of hacking tools available for your security testing needs. And if you’ve pointed a few of these tools at your own network and are shocked by how insecure it is head over to WindowsSecurity.com and start reading.
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