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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Outmesguine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: [SOCALWUG] The Feds can own your WLAN too


> [Los Angeles FBI agents attend SOCALWUG meetings to stay on top of what's
> really going on in the wireless space.  It's great to see their wireless
> experience carrying over to the general IT security community.  -Mike O.]
>
>
> From slashdot:
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/05/1428250
> Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes
> Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 05, @12:26PM
> from the still-can't-balance-budget dept.
>
> xs3 writes "At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association)
> meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current
> WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three
minutes.
> Special Agent Geoff Bickers ran the Powerpoint presentation and explained
> the attack, while the other agents (who did not want to be named or
> photographed) did the dirty work of sniffing wireless traffic and breaking
> the WEP keys. This article will be a general overview of the procedures
used
> by the FBI team."
>
>
> Here's the Tom's Hardware article by Humphrey Cheung:
> http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111.php
>
>
>

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