If you use WPA or WPA2 encryption on your home wifi setup, it might be time to think about using a longer keylength.
Security consultants Global Secure Systems say that a Russian team has successfully reduced the time it takes to brute-force (guess) a password by up to 10,000 times by using NVidia graphics cards to boost the calculations.
“Brute force decryption of the WPA and WPA2 systems using parallel processing has been on the theoretical possibilities horizon for some time,” said David Hobson of GCS, “but the use of the latest NVidia cards to speedup decryption on a standard PC is extremely worrying.
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