Protect Yourself from the KRACK Attacks
Protect Yourself from the KRACK Attacks WPA2 Wi-Fi Vulnerability
In October of 2017, Mathy Vanhoef released "Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2." This paper demonstrates a way to decrypt traffic on practically any WPA2 network, the most commonly used form of wireless security (seeing as all other forms of Wi-Fi encryption have already been broken). Practically all of the network-connected devices we use will need to be updated in some way in order to protect against this vulnerability, each of them in a different way.
The Key Reinstallation Attack method is a hack which affects both sides of your Wi-Fi networks. Your gadgets like computers, phones, game consoles, and other smart devices, as well as your wireless access point (or router, as most home users call it). As such, practically everything in your house that connects to Wi-Fi will need to be patched in different ways.
This attack's effect is extremely wide, as it affects practically every wireless network in use.
[A]ttackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted. This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos, and so on. The attack works against all modern protected Wi-Fi networks.
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