WiFi security protocol borked
 

Easy to hack

The security protocol used to protect the vast majority of wifi connections is borked and wireless internet traffic is a doddle to attack

Belgian university KU security expert Leuven Mathy Vanhoef, spotted the discovered the weakness in the wireless security protocol WPA2, and published details of the flaw.

“Attackers 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,” he wrote.

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