According to thelocal.de a German hacker says he cracked the wireless LAN password of his neighbor in 20 minutes – using the cloud computing power available on Amazon in a demonstration which he says should sensitize people and businesses to security issues.
Talk about a non-story.
He didn’t break “WAP.” He used a dictionary attack.
Anyone who can rub two brain cells together should already be using a long random alphanumeric string.
What’s WAP?
Exactly.
I think CSB should attempt to read the actual article
and a couple of other reports of this.