Japanese break wi-fi security in 60 seconds

From TG Daily -

Two scientists took just sixty seconds to break the WPA (Wifi Protected Access) encryption used in wireless routers - a time considerable less than the previous record of 15 minutes. The two - Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University will discuss their findings in a Sept 25 conference in Hiroshima.

Their hack does not give total control but enables reading and spoofing data packets. More importantly the ease with which the WPA Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption was broken suggests serious security problems. Anyone concerned with security should therefore consider the newer and more secure WPA2 with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption which remains safe from attack - at least for now.