Mobile Hotspot

iOS Mobile Hotspot crackable in 50s if you stick to defaults SlashGear iPhone and iPad users who use their iOS device to share a 3G/4G connection are being advised to change the default Mobile Hotspot password, after researchers showed it was possible to crack them in under sixty seconds. Apple supplies mobile hotspot ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers crack default iPhone Personal Hotspot passwords in under a minute Apple Insider The default generated passwords protecting the mobile hotspot feature of Apple's iPhones and iPads are weak and flawed, according to a group of German researchers claiming to be able to crack iOS Personal Hotspot keys in less than a minute. yah. See all stories on this topic »

Researchers can crack iOS-generated hotspot passwords in under a minute Examiner.com In iOS, when using a device as a mobile hotspot, users can specify their own passwords (really, an encryption key, but the researchers refer to it as a password, and so does Apple), but that's optional. Apple initially populates the field with a ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple's Default iPhone Hotspot Password Easy to Crack Gotta Be Mobile A group of researchers in Germany found that it's incredibly easy to predict the default passwords iOS generates for mobile hotspots on the iPhone and iPad. According to a recently published paper the researchers from University of Erlangen found that ... See all stories on this topic »

iPhone's Wi-Fi hotspot passwords are vulnerable to attack, researchers say GigaOM We show that Apple iOS generates weak default passwords which makes the mobile hotspotfeature of Apple iOS susceptible to brute force attacks on the WPA2 handshake. More precisely, we observed that the generation of default passwords is based on a ... See all stories on this topic »

New attack cracks iPhone autogenerated hotspot passwords in seconds Ars Technica If you use your iPhone's mobile hotspot feature, make sure you override the automatic password it offers to secure your connections. Otherwise, a team of researchers can crack it in less than half a minute by exploiting recently discovered weaknesses. See all stories on this topic »

Researchers able to predict iOS-generated hotspot passwords, takes under a ... Engadget Researchers able to predict iOS-generated hotspot passwords, takes under a minute Mobile. By Mat Smith posted Jun 19th, 2013 at 6:12 AM 0. Anyone who's tried to tether to their iPhone or iPad will recall how iOS manages to craft its own passwords when ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple Wi-Fi Hotspot Password Can Be Cracked in Under a Minute, Researchers ... Design & Trend In a paper published this month, researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany claim that Apple passwords aren't all that secure. Apple iOS, they write, generates weak default passwords that make the mobile hotspot feature ... See all stories on this topic »