WiFi vulnerability

[Dimitri]

Call me old, but I have ethernet cables running around ...

New Kr00k vulnerability lets attackers decrypt WiFi packets

In a press release today, ESET said it believes that more than a billion devices are vulnerable to Kr00k, and they consider this number "a conservative estimate."

[msn.com...]

[engine]

That's a concern, and always a risk with WiFi, especially in public Wi-Fi

[Marshall]

Call me old, but I have ethernet cables running around ...

Ditto

And you would not believe the fight I had with Comcast when they provided a new modem with their Xfinity Hot Spot. It took weeks to get them to fully disable it. I do not think people realize those modems come with active hot spots and they (the consumer paying rent for the modem) is providing free internet access to anyone within reach.

[lucy24]

Call me old, but I have ethernet cables running around ...

Same here. My modem/router has had a password ever since some years ago when I walked around the block with my iPad and saw just how far my home wifi extended. And even with the password it's just internet; I can't talk to the “real” computer from the iPad.

As we speak, my computer's WiFi menu lists EIGHTEEN available networks. This strikes me as excessive considering that there are only four apartments in the building.

[Kendo]

four apartments in the building

Some might be utility service monitoring. But the WiFi won't be limited to within your own building as any in the surrounding buildings may also be available. I live on an acreage and see our neighbours.

[lucy24]

any in the surrounding buildings may also be available

And the houses across the street, which are not all that far through the air. But this is not a town characterized by enormous houses; there's no earthly reason for ordinary home wifi to have a range of more than 10m or so.

[engine]

And you would not believe the fight I had with Comcast when they provided a new modem with their Xfinity Hot Spot.

I had similar here in the past.
I think it's pretty bad they don't make that clearer its there and easier to disable.

[blend27]

And you would not believe the fight I had with Comcast when they provided a new modem with their Xfinity Hot Spot.

After I had the same beef&donkey with them I simply bought my own modem, cost me 50 or so. Then renamed SID to VIRUS on attached router, local WiFi, literally. Couple of days later one of the neighbors, knowing that I am into IT, asked me if I had seen VIRUS on WiFi....

But Yes, no can do without RJ4[5-6].

[Jonesy]

Some geek in the neighborhood
has their SID set to: "FBI Van#2"

[Dimitri]

Some geek in the neighborhood
has their SID set to: "FBI Van#2"

This is great! :-)

[lucy24]

Yes, the “#2” is what moves it up from clever to brilliant.

[coothead]

Here's another good one...

Smart camera and baby monitor warning given by UK's cyber-defender [bbc.co.uk]

Eric Arthur Blair would have loved that. :)

birdbrain

[blend27]

Some geek in the neighborhood
has their SID set to: "FBI Van#2"

Let me try that one!

[Steven29]

All smart devices have and are hacked I believe and the easiest way to stop attacks is by disabling IPV6. Unless you have a fridge trying to access your website, you should not need IPV6.

The question is, if it's vulnerable on the Wi-Fi network... what about all the 'Li-Fi" networks that are in use?

[JS_Harris]

A secure connection is a thing of the past, it's like having a private conversation in a room full of people.