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Time to patch against FragAttacks but good luck with home routers and IoT devices – ZDNet
A dozen flaws discovered, with at least one hitting anything that uses Wi-Fi. Thankfully, Microsoft patches are out, and Linux kernel patches are coming.
Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef, who loves to poke holes in Wi-Fi security, is at it again, this time finding a dozen flaws that stretch back to cover WEP and seemingly impact every device that makes use of Wi-Fi.
Thankfully, as Vanhoef explained, many of the attacks are hard to abuse and require user interaction, while others remain trivial.
Another positive is Microsoft shipped its patches on March 9, while a patch to the Linux kernel is working its way through the release system. The details…
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