Microsoft acted quickly and already had a security patch to end the breach that appeared with KRACK

It was the news of yesterday. The security of WPA2 networks was in question. The reason? The discovery of a new type of attack called KRACK, which threatened WPA2 keys, the most widespread because they were supposedly the most secure

This means that there are many teams at risk and that brands have to put themselves to work piecemeal In fact, the safest thing is that the brand of your router or operating system have to launch a security patch to solve these vulnerabilities.And that's what they've already done at Microsoft.

But first let's see what KRACK is. This is a threat through which an attacker could decrypt packets sent by users thus managing to intercept their communications and therefore being able to spy on those transmissions. Thus, for example, passwords, credit card numbers, messages in instant messaging clients or photos that we send during our sessions would be at risk, provided that they will be used through insecure web pages.

In the case of using the https protocol, these would not be affected, since every time you enter a website protected with HTTPS, your browser establishes an independent encryption layer. In this way the information that circulates through this type of website would not be compromised In addition, the attacker must be physically close to your network or router

The threat was in the air and the first to react was Google, which warned that they were working on an update that would reach Android phones, in which we already saw how KRACK worked. And Google is joined by Microsoft, which already has a patch that settles that threat

In fact, the company has issued a statement clarifying that they have managed to neutralize the threat through a patch released on October 10 . Hence the importance of having our equipment updated.

In this sense from Microsoft they were already aware of the existence of the threat, although they did not make it public to avoid the commotion and thus wait because other vendors were able to develop and release the respective updates for their systems.The question that remains in the air with those from Cupertino is whether a patch will be issued for the KRACK exploit for the AirPort.

Similarly, the other major, Apple, also confirmed to AppleInsider that the vulnerability is patched in a beta version of current operating systems .

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