Please tell me your not using WEP for your wireless network?
An article over on slashdot reports that the attack to discover WEP keys has been optimised even futher and that a 104-bit key can be discovered using only 40,000 captured packets. Even further the key can then be cracked very quickly (about 3 seconds!) on any modern hardware
The full article is here including a white paper
Interesting is that is mentions further down the page that 256-bit keys are not supported by this method. Even so what excuse is there for not using WPA (or even better WPA2 if your software/hardware supports it) nowadays
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Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
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