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‘FragAttack’ flaws threaten Wi-Fi, but not too seriously – Network World
A set of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi’s basic design offers a long-standing and widespread threat vector, but the probability of compromise remains low.
Almost all Wi-Fi is potentially vulnerable to flaws that date back to 1997 when it became commercially available, but even the person who discovered the weaknesses says some of them are difficult to exploit.
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Mathy Vanhoef, a post-doctoral student at NYU Abu Dhabi, has created attacksFragAttacksthat take advantage of the vulnerabilities, but in an academic paper about them, says the most widespread vulnerabilities can be exploited only under specific, rare conditions, and require…
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