Wi-Fi networks easy to crack – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

Customers KPN, Ziggo, Tele2 and other providers run the risk that their Wi-Fi network can be easily cracked. These are networks that password during installation is not personalized, say researchers at Radboud University

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Providers give their customers an own router and a password. This password is, however, a variant of the name given available network, making it easy to figure out.

Across Nieuwsuur recognize providers that passwords are insecure. According to many providers, this problem is known and customers strongly recommended that reason, to change the password during installation. However, this does not happen always.

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Researchers at the Radboud University in Nijmegen find it incomprehensible that providers still provide passwords this way. ,, You might as well be a random string of numbers and letters indicate the password, ” said one of them in Nieuwsuur

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