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Urgent: Change your Wireless Security Settings

Linksys WAP54G 802.
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Crunchgear reports today that researchers have developed an attack against WPA Encryption when using the TKIP protocol.

If you haven’t already, change your wireless access point security settings to the AES Protocol, or switch to WPA2 to stay one step ahead of them. Or, if you are out and about, and cannot do so, consider using SSH Tunneling or  VPN to encrypt your connection a second time.

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Published on August 27, 2009

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