A published exploit reportedly discovered by researcher Mathy Vanhoef has found a weakness in the WPA2 protocol powering all modern protected Wi-Fi networks, claiming “Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, OpenBSD, MediaTek, Linksys, and others, are all affected by some variant of the attacks.” Despite that claim, Apple is listed as “Unknown” rather than “Affected” or “Not Affected” on the attached list of affected companies, so it’s still unclear if the technique demonstrated on an Android device would be effective against Apple devices.
Software and firmware updates are the recommended fix, but Apple hasn’t acknowledged the issue publicly.
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