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October 16, 2017

SECURITY

Perspective About the Recent WPA Vulnerabilities (KRACK Attacks)

On October 16th,Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, published a paper disclosing a series of vulnerabilities that affect the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. These are protocol-level vulnerabilities that affect wireless ven…