How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Aug 24 - Aug 31 Risk Assessment How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat by Dan Goodin Last week's feature explaining why passwords are under assault like never before touched a nerve with many Ars readers, and with good reason. After all, passwords are the keys that secure Web-based bank accounts, sensitive e-mail services, and virtually every other facet of our online life. Lose control of the wrong password and it may only be a matter of time until the rest of our digital assets fall, too. Read More Technology Lab Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs by techreport As you may know, a while back, we came to some difficult realizations about the validity of our methods for testing PC gaming performance. In my article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking, we explained why the widely used frames-per-second averages tend to obscure some of the most important information about how smoothly a game plays on a given system. In a nutshell, the problem is that FPS averages summarize performance over a relatively long span of time. It's quite possible to have lots of slowdowns and performance hiccups during the period in question and still end up with an average frame rate that seems quite good. In other words, the FPS averages we (and everyone else) had been dishing out to readers for years weren't very helpful—and were potentially misleading. Read More Infinite Loop Apple v. Samsung verdict is in: $1 billion loss for Samsung by Joe Mullin A jury of seven men and two women has just read the Apple v. Samsung verdict to a packed courtroom—and it was all bad news for Samsung. The Korean electronics giant has been found to infringe all of Apple's utility patents and all but one of the four design patents asserted, and was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Japan court: Samsung did not infringe Apple's media sync patent LIRGs and hot DOGS: survey spots black holes, superluminous galaxies Court ruling that NSA spying violated 4th Amendment remains secret Fry's pays $2.3M to settle sex text claims HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe High quality Denisovan genome sheds light on human evolution Oracle patches critical Java bugs used to commandeer computers The PCs of IFA 2012: Hybrid computers for a hybrid operating system Huge natural gas producer severs Website, email after malware attack Own e-books? Publishers to pay back millions over price fixing charges Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.