More Industrial Products at Risk of KRACK Attacks

  • 22 November 2017
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By Eduard Kovacs on November 22, 2017 An increasing number of vendors have warned customers over the past weeks that their industrial networking products are vulnerable to the recently disclosed Wi-Fi attack method known as KRACK.
 
The KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) flaws affect the WPA and WPA2 protocols and they allow a hacker within range of the targeted device to launch a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and decrypt or inject data. A total of ten CVE identifiers have been assigned to these security bugs.
 
The vulnerabilities impact many products, including devices designed for use in industrial environments. The first industrial solutions providers to warn customers about the KRACK attack were Cisco, Rockwell Automation and Sierra Wireless.
 
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KRACK is at its best.....................patching is necessary or re-coding.........whatever it takes to stop this exploit.

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