{"id":121362,"date":"2017-10-16T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121362"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:53:15","slug":"wi-fi-hacked-wpa2-eavesdropping-attack-to-be-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/121362-wi-fi-hacked-wpa2-eavesdropping-attack-to-be-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi hacked \u2014 WPA2 eavesdropping attack to be revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers will release a proof-of-concept attack on the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol today, which lets attackers eavesdrop on traffic between devices and access points, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/10\/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed KRACK, a backronym for Key Reinstallation Attacks, the details of the research have yet to be released. Coordinated disclosure of the research is set to take place at 17:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica said the attack works by exploiting the four-way handshake used to set up a key for encrypting traffic between a device and access point.<\/p>\n<p>In the third step of the handshake, the key can be resent multiple times. If done in a specific way, a cryptographic nonce may be reused \u2013 allowing an attacker to eavesdrop on the rest of the Wi-Fi traffic in that session.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure is expected to be made through\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krackattacks.com\/\">krackattacks.com<\/a><\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Aruba and Ubiquiti are expected to have updates ready to fix the issue on their devices.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica reported that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nick_Lowe\/status\/919527451570638848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security researchers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0said the vulnerabilities will be indexed as\u00a0CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13082, CVE-2017-13084, CVE-2017-13086, CVE-2017-13087, and CVE-2017-13088.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/119730-what-you-need-to-set-up-an-epic-home-wi-fi-network.html\">What you need to set up an epic home Wi-Fi network<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers will release a proof-of-concept attack on the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol today, which lets attackers eavesdrop on traffic between devices and access points, reported\u00a0Ars Technica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":97170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[25202,1461],"class_list":["post-121362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-infosec","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121364,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121362\/revisions\/121364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}