Here is a video created by g0tmi1k on WEP cracking with Aircrack-NG.
How does this work? – ARP beacon is needed (depending on the attack method), so this can be re-injected back into the network. To get this packets the attacker needs to disconnect a connected client currently on the network (if the attacker keeps on repeating this part, it will be a DoS to the client). Once the key beacon has been captured and enough data injected/collected, it is now an offline attack either by brute force or a dictionary attack. Then its just a question of waiting then the attacker will have the key (brute forcing WEP can be less than 60 seconds!) From here, the attacker can use that key to decrypt the captured data from before, and now is able to ‘read’ it as well as join the network.
A major Wiltshire town is to become the first in the UK to offer free public wireless internet access to its entire population, it was claimed.
The plan is to to have blanket “Wi-Fi mesh” coverage for all 186,000 citizens by April 2010.
BBC news reported,
If successful, there is an intention of working on similar roll-outs of the technology in other towns and cities across the UK.
Swindon Borough Council leader Rod Bluh said: “This is a truly ground-breaking partnership which will have real benefits for everyone living in Swindon.
“We’re doing it, we’ve done it, and we’re the first to do it.”
The service will also have the potential to provide free internet phone-calls and remote medical consultations.
