Perspective About the Recent WPA Vulnerabilities
On October 16th, Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, published a paper disclosing a series of vulnerabilities that affect the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol. These are protocol-level vulnerabilities that affect wireless vendors providing infrastructure devices and wireless clients, which follow the WPA and WPA2 specifications. These vulnerabilities were also referred to as “KRACK” [...]