No, I am not talking about the drug. A new vulnerability in the WPA2 encryption scheme has been discovered and has the potential to affect all wireless client devices but especially Android devices. The vulnerability was announced only Sunday so as of this morning, no patches are available. There is no information about any attacks occurring in the wild yet either but if you rely heavily on wireless especially in smartphones you will increasingly be at risk as the hackers learn how to exploit it. Using wireless for any financial or other secure activity should not be done. That is always good advice but especially now. Keep everything updated, as much as possible. The fix will have to come from the chip set makers such as Broadcom, Realtek, Ralink, etc and filter through to the update channels for the client devices...it may take a while.
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