A researcher analyzed how Akira operates on Linux and came with a brute-force decryption tool It took $1,200 and three weeks to decrypt a system The tool is available on GitHub now A security ...

There are a number of ways to crack a password, all with their different pros and cons, but when it comes down to it, the limiting factor in all of these methods is processing complexity.

WPA/WPA2 is slow to crack and requires a lot of processing power, so [Matt] also added the option to automatically provision AWS GPU instances to run the cracking task in the cloud. It also keeps ...