You might have heard some doom-and-gloom news this morning: a researcher has finally figured out how to compromise the WPA2 encryption algorithm, the world's most popular WiFi encryption and almost everyone is vulnerable.
There is however, no reason to panic. It's patchable, the scripts to exploit devices are not in the wild, and many devices already received updates. You'll probably hear a lot over the next few days that WiFi is "broken beyond repair" but it's not entirely true.
Called "Krack attacks" the new exploit affects the WiFi standard itself and allows an unauthenticated attacker to steal data from your network. It's not an easy hack, but it's one of particular concern because we can't just switch away from WPA2 like the last time when WEP was compromised and we all ran away.
Yes, this is bad... but the good news is it's also entirely addressable as per the FAQ:
WiFi is broken – here's the companies that have already fixed it | Charged
There is however, no reason to panic. It's patchable, the scripts to exploit devices are not in the wild, and many devices already received updates. You'll probably hear a lot over the next few days that WiFi is "broken beyond repair" but it's not entirely true.
Called "Krack attacks" the new exploit affects the WiFi standard itself and allows an unauthenticated attacker to steal data from your network. It's not an easy hack, but it's one of particular concern because we can't just switch away from WPA2 like the last time when WEP was compromised and we all ran away.
Yes, this is bad... but the good news is it's also entirely addressable as per the FAQ:
WiFi is broken – here's the companies that have already fixed it | Charged
