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KRACK Detector is a tool to detect and prevent KRACK attacks in your network

  • November 6, 2017
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November 6, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

How to discover if your network is vulnerable to KRACK attack?
KRACK Detector is a script that can detect attacks against client devices on your network.

 
Last week I published a post warning of many industrial networking devices from various vendors are still vulnerable to the recently disclosed KRACK attack (Key Reinstallation Attack).
 
The Belgian researcher Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven and his team of researchers discovered in the middle-October several key management flaws in the core of Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol that could be exploited by an attacker to hack into Wi-Fi network and eavesdrop on the Internet communications stealing sensitive information (i.e. credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, and pictures).
 
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Good article and good to hear about this script which can counter act this exploit.

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