New attack on WPA using PMKID
So, how secure is a network when the teenagers in the house give out the WiFi key to all their friends when they visit? How secure is it when said teenagers ask Dad to change the previous random-character password to a simple phrase to make it easier for their friends to type it in?<p>Asking for a friend. :)<p>In other words, about 99% of the WiFi passwords out there are vulnerable to a brute force attack. But we knew that already, didn&#x27;t we? Was it not already possible to brute force WPA2 before this new attack?<p>How much easier&#x2F;faster is this new attack? It would have been nice if the article itself said something like: &quot;This new attack increases brute force attack rate by a factor of 10x&quot;. Or whatever the right value is.