From the "wait a minute, are you sure that's safe?" department: 



It took Japanese researchers only 60 seconds but it appears as if  the replacement to the extremely vulnerable WEP needs replacing. 



The WPA encryption system used for wireless security can hacked in about 60 seconds.  That's scary since the WPA protocol and related TKIP were created due to weaknesses discovered in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).



According to CBR, "The security attack they have formulated for the Wi-Fi Protected Access or WPA protocol is similar to one known as the Beck-Tews attack which appeared last year as a means of recovering plain text from an encrypted short packet, and from there falsifying it.  That took anything up to 15 minutes. But with this latest message falsification attack, which is good for pretty much any WPA implementation, the execution time is cut to about one minute in the best case."



Can't say I'm surprised...the writing was on the wall...(see previous posts on wireless insecurity below) Remember, our boy Albert Gonzalez,.a.k.a. "SoupNazi" got his start thanks to WEP by Wardriving. 

Related articles

• New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute (infoworld.com)


• One-minute WiFi crack puts further pressure on WPA (arstechnica.com)


• WEP = Fail; WPA+TKIP = Fail (q-ontech.blogspot.com)


• New attack breaks Wi-Fi security in a minute (vator.tv)


• WPA encryption cracked in under a minute (crunchgear.com)


• WiFi Demystified - Part II (techie-buzz.com)