Home using WEP gets Hacked

WEP has been known to be insecure since 2001, with the publishing of the FMS paper discussing its flaws. Unfortunately most people either are'nt still aware or probably just don't care and continue to use WEP in their homes and small offices. In this video a journalist travels with a security expert to a residential area and parks their vehicle outside a home running WEP and cracks the WEP key. Then he proceeds to secretly monitor the home user's activity online - while he books his travel tickets, logs onto airline sites etc. Then armed with all this information they approach the home user (who is of course miserably shocked!!) and educate him about the dangers of using an unprotected wireless connection and recommends the use of stronger protection such as WPA/WPA2.

Links:

1. WEP basics

2. WPA/WPA2 basics

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net