Steps you can take to help protect yourself from the next KRACK attack

Oct17

by Sindy Cator on October 17, 2017 at 2:10 pm

So, by now, you’ve probably heard of the KRACK vulnerabilities and the announcement made through a website that credits Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet with the discovery. While, there is a lot of technical jargon, what is essentially happening with this vulnerability is that it gives people easy access to Wi-Fi networks through the core WPA2 protocol. Even the Wi-Fi based encryption is no match, and those with malicious intent have basically an open ledger to peruse at their leisure both a wealth of information and the ability to upload ransomware to devices on these networks. While this is mainly going…