Severe WiFi Hack: WPA2 “KRACK Attack” Threatens WiFi Users Around The World

[The Conservative]

https://fossbytes.com/wpa-2-vulnerabili ... sdropping/

This, if actually used is a world of hurt on 99% of all Wi-Fi. Yes companies like MS have already patched it, but this still doesn't mean that it's easy to resolve. Mac systems are easy targets as well as Androids... Androids more so.

If you can, hard wire in, if you can't, start looking at beefing up your security measures.

[TheReal_ND]

Neat.

https://www.krackattacks.com

[The Conservative]

Neat.

https://www.krackattacks.com

Yeah, not so much...

[SuburbanFarmer]

https://fossbytes.com/wpa-2-vulnerabili ... sdropping/

This, if actually used is a world of hurt on 99% of all Wi-Fi. Yes companies like MS have already patched it, but this still doesn't mean that it's easy to resolve. Mac systems are easy targets as well as Androids... Androids more so.

If you can, hard wire in, if you can't, start looking at beefing up your security measures.

Saw this yesterday, was waiting to see the response from tech companies. So far, it's being buried (they don't have an answer).

It's not a Microsoft/Android/Apple issue. It has to do with the actual routing protocols in Wi-Fi. This falls on Cisco, and the IEEE, most likely. There's nothing for Microsoft to do at the OS level, they can't force a rotating key at the network level, if the other end isn't using the same method.

[The Conservative]

https://fossbytes.com/wpa-2-vulnerabili ... sdropping/

This, if actually used is a world of hurt on 99% of all Wi-Fi. Yes companies like MS have already patched it, but this still doesn't mean that it's easy to resolve. Mac systems are easy targets as well as Androids... Androids more so.

If you can, hard wire in, if you can't, start looking at beefing up your security measures.

Saw this yesterday, was waiting to see the response from tech companies. So far, it's being buried (they don't have an answer).

It's not a Microsoft/Android/Apple issue. It has to do with the actual routing protocols in Wi-Fi. This falls on Cisco, and the IEEE, most likely. There's nothing for Microsoft to do at the OS level, they can't force a rotating key at the network level, if the other end isn't using the same method.

Yes, but companies such as Apple and MS can protect their OS's while this is being resolved on a firmware level.

[SuburbanFarmer]

https://fossbytes.com/wpa-2-vulnerabili ... sdropping/

This, if actually used is a world of hurt on 99% of all Wi-Fi. Yes companies like MS have already patched it, but this still doesn't mean that it's easy to resolve. Mac systems are easy targets as well as Androids... Androids more so.

If you can, hard wire in, if you can't, start looking at beefing up your security measures.

Saw this yesterday, was waiting to see the response from tech companies. So far, it's being buried (they don't have an answer).

It's not a Microsoft/Android/Apple issue. It has to do with the actual routing protocols in Wi-Fi. This falls on Cisco, and the IEEE, most likely. There's nothing for Microsoft to do at the OS level - they can't force a rotating key at the network level, if the other end isn't using the same method.

Yes, but companies such as Apple and MS can protect their OS's while this is being resolved on a firmware level.

How would you propose they do that? OS is told to connect to a network, connects, receives data. Other than the standard virus detection, there's nothing to be done on the network layer. The information being sent/received can still be intercepted, regardless. The OS would never see it.

[Speaker to Animals]

We need to overhaul the entire protocol.

[SuburbanFarmer]

We need to overhaul the entire protocol.

That's the bizarre part of this. The researchers already have a solution - using rotating keys. It's so common sense, that I suspect there's a reason it wasn't done in the first place. They might have stumbled across one of the IC backdoors..in which case, this will get interesting quickly.

[The Conservative]

We need to overhaul the entire protocol.

We need to overhaui the internet and security as a whole, this isn't just a single "patch fix"... the problem is that people are not going to want to do what needs to be done.

[Speaker to Animals]

We need to overhaul the entire protocol.

That's the bizarre part of this. The researchers already have a solution - using rotating keys. It's so common sense, that I suspect there's a reason it wasn't done in the first place. They might have stumbled across one of the IC backdoors..in which case, this will get interesting quickly.

You are close to the truth.

Hint: take the word security out of NSA and replace it with the word vulnerability.