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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 2nd 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: New WPA3 Wireless Standard, Malicious Smartphone Batteries and the Exactis Data Leak.
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The anxiously awaited new wireless standard, WPA3, has officially been launched by the Wi-Fi Alliance last week. This new wireless standard will fix several known vulnerabilities with the previous WPA2 standard such as the KRACK attack which can allow an attacker to intercept and decrypt wireless network traffic. Note that many Wi-Fi device manufactures have already patched for the KRACK attack, however, the Wi-Fi Alliance made sure that WPA3, by default, included protection for this particular attack and other known issues with WPA2.
WPA3 will have increased protection against brute-force attacks and support for something called SAE (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals) which will prevent attackers from decrypting previously captured network traffic even with a compromised Wi-Fi network password. Other new features include individualized data encryption to prevent local “Man-in-the-Middle” attacks and a feature called “Wi-Fi Easy Connect” which will allow simple and secure pairing of Internet of Things devices that don’t have a visual screen or display. This will replace “Wi-Fi Protected Setup” or also known as WPS which has been proven to be insecure. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, mass adoption by device manufactures and consumers is predicted to start taking place towards the end of 2019.
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