Well, it looks like some geniuses in Japan have figured out a way to decrease the amount of time needed to hack into a WPA protected wireless network from around fifteen minutes to less than one, thus reminding us yet again that modern data security measures are only as good as your local hacker’s level [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Wireless 
Tags: hacking, MOCA, networking, powerline, research, security, wireless, WPA 
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Well this is encouraging news…52% of computer viruses last less than 24 hours. From Panda Security, it is reported that of the 37,000 computer viruses and other related malware they examine daily, only about 17,000 of them will continue infecting our computers more than 24 hours after they become active. I can finally sleep soundly [...]