{"id":6959,"date":"2020-12-07T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2020-12-07T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:05:30","slug":"vulnerability-within-wpa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/12\/07\/vulnerability-within-wpa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability within WPA 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers has found an high-severity hardware vulnerability in the widely-used Wi-Fi chip manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. The vulnerability is called Kr00k an has CVE number CVE-2019-15126. It allows an attacker to remote intercept and decrypt some of the wireless network packets. The attacker doesn&#8217;t have to be connected to the same network as the victim. Attacker can communicate to the victims device through the vulnerability within the Wi-Fi chip\u00a0 using WPA 2-Personal or WPA2-Enterprise protocols. Researchers at ESET has said that devices such as &#8220;Amazon (Echo, Kindle), Apple (iPhone, iPad, MacBook), Google (Nexus), Samsung (Galaxy), Raspberry (Pi 3), Xiaomi (RedMi), as well as some access points by Asus and Huawei, were vulnerable to Kr00k&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, M. 2020. New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices. Retrieved from: https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2020\/02\/kr00k-wifi-encryption-flaw.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers has found an high-severity hardware vulnerability in the widely-used Wi-Fi chip manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. The vulnerability is called Kr00k an has CVE number CVE-2019-15126. It allows an attacker to remote intercept and decrypt some of the wireless network packets. The attacker doesn&#8217;t have to be connected to the same network as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[823239],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-review-of-all-topics","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6960,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}