ElcomSoft releases all-in-one wi-fi cracking soln

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has announced  upgrades to Wireless Security Auditor, a wireless key recovery solution for Wi-Fi networks, to bring a all-in-one wireless cracking solution.

Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor helps system administrators and corporate security officers to audit wireless network security. The suite attempts to recover the original plain-text password protecting Wi-Fi communications via WPA/WPA2 PSK protocols for a certain time period, ensuring or disclaiming network resistiblity against the most advanced attacks.

Considering the increased security requirements found in WPA/WPA2 protected networks, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor employs the highest-performance dictionary-attack with advanced mutations to allow carrying out a password audit within a limited timeframe.

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According to a release, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor can automatically locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WPA/WPA2 PSK passwords. Adding the support of AirPCap family Wi-Fi adapters, ElcomSoft Wi-Fi password recovery tool turns any modern laptop with discrete graphics into a mobile wireless security audit system, and provides mobile forensic and law enforcement units with access to protected wireless networks.

The release said that the original version of Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor enabled network administrators to perform timed attacks on their wireless networks in order to determine how secure exactly their networks were. In order to operate, it required ready-made dumps or wireless traffic. The dumps could be made with a third-party "sniffer" running under Linux or Windows. The requirement to use a third-party product limited the capabilities and ease of use of Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor.

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Integrated Wi-Fi Sniffer

ElcomSoft said it is  integrating a wireless sniffer into Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor. The integrated sniffer turns Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor into a one-button, all-in-one solution ready to be used by corporate security officers without specific experience in information security.

The integrated sniffer is utterly convenient. Displaying all available wireless networks complete with channel numbers, MAC-addresses, SSID, speed, load and encryption parameters, the sniffer connects to a selected Wi-Fi network, and logs wireless traffic complete with "handshake" packets required to starts the password recovery attack.

Laptop-Based Wireless Security Audit

The new built-in sniffer requires the use of a dedicated Wi-Fi adapter, and supports AirPcap family of hot-pluggable wireless USB adapters. By supporting AirPcap wireless USB adapters and including the new sniffer in the package, ElcomSoft makes it possible to turn any modern laptop (*) into a high-end wireless security audit system.