Once he had finished with this method he then followed the same technique but using the freely available RockYou list which contains 14 million commonly used passwords, starting with: He was able to access 2,200 networks or 44% of the routers he attempted. This means trying 100 million combinations for each WiFi network which sounds a lot, but for a modern PC this is fairly simple. ![]() Astonishingly he was successful in over two thirds of the 5,000 cases with a simple open source brute force program.įirstly, he used 8 digit numbers as many people in Israel use their mobile phone number as their password. His goal was to ‘sniff out’ as many WiFi networks as possible and then see if he could crack the password. Israeli security researcher Ido Hoorvitch spent a few days walking the streets of Tel Aviv with a laptop, a network card and a basic antenna. Clearly, not having your password as admin or password is going to make life more difficult for hackers, it doesn’t necessarily mean your home network is secure. Does forcing users to change the default password to a user defined one solve this problem? Manufacturers found in breach of this new legislation will face fines of up to £10m or 4% of their global turnover, as well as up to £20,000 a day for ongoing contraventions. Security researchers will be given a public point of contact to point out flaws and bugs. ![]() If a product doesn’t get either, that must also be disclosed.
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