Two Steps to Take to Secure Your Verizon MiFi From Being Hacked in Seconds
Ugh! I really really hate to read news like this from Threat Post (Kapersky Labs)…
Security research Joshua Wright used the Open Source Kismet WiFi sniffer to study Verizon’s MiFi data stream. He found:
– The SSID on the MiFi’s label was slightly different from what was transmitted
– The default password (also on the label) is cryptographicaly weak (100,000 possible passwords)
He then wrote a very short Python script to use with a WPA cracking tool.
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