Many networking devices are still vulnerable to pixie dust attack

Despite having been discovered and reported in 2014, the vulnerability that allows pixie dust attacks still impacts consumer and SOHO networking equipment around the world, Netrise researchers have confirmed. WPS and the pixie dust attack Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) allows users to connect to their network by using an eight-digit pin instead of a password. “[A pixie dust attack] targets weaknesses in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup protocol, exploiting poor entropy in key generation,” the company … More →

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