Hardware and Wi-Fi Flaws
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Black Hat USA 2018: Google, Microsoft and Red Hat dish on the Meltdown/Spectre backstory
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Meltdown and Spectre disclosure suffered "extraordinary miscommunication"
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Qualcomm CPUs have been shown to be unprotected against the Meltdown exploit, researchers say
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New Wi-Fi attack cracks WPA2 passwords with ease
The attack technique can be used to compromise WPA/WPA2-secured routers and crack Wi-Fi passwords which have Pairwise Master Key Identifiers (PMKID) features enabled.
Security researcher and developer of the Hashcat password cracking tool Jens "Atom" Steube made the discovery and shared the findings on the Hashcat forum earlier this month.
At the time, Steube was investigating ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard. Announced in January by industry body the Wi-Fi Alliance, WPA3 is the latest refresh of the Wi-Fi standard.
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