nVidia GPU's speed up hacking : by 10000%

[carmicael]

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Most people grumble and complain about the high cost of top end GPUs. Now it appears that these GPUs are cost-effective ways to breach wireless network encryption.

Russian Hackers reportedly broke through WPA and WPA2 encryption using a brute force attack coupled with Nvidia’s GPUs. With no mention of which specific card was used in the discovery, the card supposedly increased password recovery up to 10,000 percent faster. Reports at this time are quite vague on the details, but if the claims hold any water at all, security experts could have a serious issue on their hands.

Commenting on the issue, David Hobson, managing director of Global Secure Systems (GSS) claimed that companies can no longer view standards-based WiFi transmissions as sufficiently secure against eavesdropping to be used with impunity. He also added that the use of VPNs is arguably now mandatory for companies wanting to comply with the Data Protection Act.

The problem here is that most VPNs also use AES encryption which is the same encryption that is employed by WPA2. WPA employs RC4. If this new type of approach at breaching WPA/WPA2 protection actually works with ease, then the majority of VPNs are at risk as well.

Brute force decryption of WPA and WPA2 systems using parallel processing has been on the theoretical possibilities horizon for quite some time now – and presumably employed by relevant government agencies in extreme situations. If tech savvy hackers at home get the chance to tap the power of GPUs for this purpose, a whole can of worms is about to open.

Some companies employ different strategies however. Some industry experts believe that the security focus should not be on the link itself, but rather the points at each end. If you secure your systems and the data sent over the link, then it doesn’t matter what people see in between.

Hackers Use Nvidia GPUs to Crack WiFi - Tom's Hardware

[vashtinone]

kuyawa gyd ning mga hacker sah.. tsk tsk tsk..

[Dynielle]

omg ! unsaon nalang kung wala na gyud security sa online threats..

[loloyis.com]

this goes to show how powerful the GPU is,
but used improperly.

[reishoto]

teraflops...

[carmicael]

grabe kaayo. ma amplify ang brute force attack by 10k%

[mejie]

nice job nvidia.... nyahaha and to hackers... owdner wat card is that, i think that's teh latest card nvidia released or soon to be released....

[yob]

it is because nVidia was already thinking of a general purpose processor when they came up with the G80..

since a 8/9 or 200-series GPU is composed of a number of stream processors capable of executing simple instructions such as add and multiply. combine all stream processors, and we got a massively parallel computing monster surppasing the speed of any general purpose multi-core desktop processor at certain calculations particulary task that require simultaneous calculations..

they released an SDK called CUDA. this would allow programmers to harness the power of their GPU..
do whatever you like with it in programming. use it for hacking or encoding a video.. The speed depends how good you optimize your program and of course the type of GPU hardware you got.

they actually had a contest to write a CUDA accelerated MP3 encoder based on Lame... the winner gets cash..

So, can you think of any more possibilities?

[carmicael]

...endless...

[rubiks_gang]

hacker pls hack my gpu..and my emaxx a780g on board video