So yesterday, husband shared about the crackable WPA2 which sends a panic surge among the security practitioners. It it scary these days since we thought our WIFI is supposedly to be secured but ended up people can still get our information without us realizing it by exploiting several vulnerabilities (a couple of CVEs). More info here:

Key Reinstallation Attacks Breaking WPA2 by forcing nonce reuse
Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven
https://www.krackattacks.com/

As for the mitigation or prevention:
Since it needs to connect to the nearest access point, don’t just simply connect to any free wireless around you. You might be connected to the malicious WIFI instead. Use broadband! I bet Telcos is loving me now for promoting their broadband usage.

It will need a device be it IOT or computers to connect so, just make sure your devices are updated and patched regularly.

You might also want to use VPN if it is available but obviously public users dont really have any VPN connections to use 🙄. However, there are public VPN available ie http://www.vpngate.net/en/ or use Opera browser as they have built in VPN.

Then you may consider browsing the Web with an extension or browser add-on like HTTPS Everywhere, which forces any site that supports https:// connections to encrypt your communications with the Web site like me! 😘

Hope this can help you ease and relax….till next time miss bloggie…

💕,

Farah Ramlee