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Title: News: Report: Vulnerability in WPA2 protocol could affect Apple devices
Post by: HCK on October 17, 2017, 04:05:25 pm
News: Report: Vulnerability in WPA2 protocol could affect Apple devices

A published exploit reportedly discovered by researcher Mathy Vanhoef has found a weakness in the WPA2 protocol powering all modern protected Wi-Fi networks, claiming “Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, OpenBSD, MediaTek, Linksys, and others, are all affected by some variant of the attacks.” Despite that claim, Apple is listed as “Unknown” rather than “Affected” or “Not Affected” on the attached list of…

Source: News: Report: Vulnerability in WPA2 protocol could affect Apple devices (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/report-vulnerability-in-wpa2-protocol-could-affect-apple-devices)