WiFi Protected Setup PIN brute force vulnerability

US-Cert has put out a vulnerability note during December 2011 regarding a brute force attack against wireless routers. The vulnerability was first discovered by Stefan Viehböck and was subsequently independently reported by Craig Heffner. Craig and his team have now released their tool “Reaver” over at Google Code which helps with the brute force attacks.

 

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