Secunia Blog KRACK and the WPA2 Implementation Vulnerabilities – What’s up?

Are you overwhelmed reading the news about the Key Reinstallation AttaCK (KRACK) targeting vulnerabilities on implementations of the WPA2 Wi-Fi encryption scheme? Let’s review some facts to give it perspective: There is no attack at this point – Despite the “market” name, the attack is a proof of concept (POC) demonstrated by researcher Mathy Vanhoef, from Belgian University  KU Leuven who uncovered the vulnerability. There are no reports of actual attacks or successful breaches associated with this vulnerability at this point. The attack can only happen within the Wi-Fi network…