Tag Archives: wi-fi

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

AirSnitch “breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks,” Xin’an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. “Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform] cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will… Read More: New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and… »

iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

Enlarge / Private Wi-Fi address setting on an iPhone. reader comments 46 with Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised. Despite promises that this never-changing address would… Read More: iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises… »

Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding

Getty Images reader comments 55 with Printer manufacturer Canon is warning that sensitive Wi-Fi settings don’t automatically get wiped during resets, so customers should manually delete them before selling, discarding, or getting them repaired to prevent the settings from falling into the wrong hands. “Sensitive information on the Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the memories… Read More: Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before… »

New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows

Enlarge / Forget bendable mobile phones—we’re holding out for working mobile phone plushies. reader comments 26 with 21 posters participating, including story author Share this story The WireGuard VPN project announced a major milestone for its Windows users today—an all-new, kernel-mode implementation of the VPN protocol called WireGuardNT. The new implementation allows for massively improved throughput… Read More: New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows »

Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone

reader comments 33 with 25 posters participating Share this story There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclosed over the weekend. By connecting to a Wi-Fi network that uses the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” (quotation marks not included), iPhones and iPads lose the… Read More: Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone »

Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls

Mathy Vanhoef reader comments 56 with 35 posters participating Share this story One of the things that makes Wi-Fi work is its ability to break big chunks of data into smaller chunks, and vice versa, depending on the needs of the network at a given moment. These mundane network plumbing features, it turns out, have… Read More: Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls »

iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever

Enlarge / That’s a lot of screen. Samuel Axon reader comments 144 with 106 posters participating Share this story Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device—over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required… Read More: iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking… »

FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi

reader comments 75 with 66 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Communications Commission today voted to add 45MHz of spectrum to Wi-Fi in a slightly controversial decision that takes the spectrum away from a little-used automobile-safety technology. The spectrum from 5.850GHz to 5.925GHz has, for about 20 years, been set aside… Read More: FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize”… »