Crack is bad for Wi-Fi. Equifax loses their IRS contract, and an RSA crypto key is vulnerable to being reverse engineered. All that is coming up now on Threat Wire. Greetings, I am Shannon Morse, and this is Threat Wire for October 17, 2017. Your summary of the threats to our security, privacy, and internet freedom. If you haven't checked out our Patreon yet, please do so. We have lots that we want to do for the show, but we can't do it without your support. Patreon.com/threatwire is the place to support Threat Wire, and the link is in the show notes. And also, real quick, I just wanted to let you know that I am giving away a Nintendo NES classic over on my YouTube channel. All you have to do is go over there to youtube.com/techthing, make sure to comment on the most recent episode from this last week, and make sure to subscribe so you know when we announce the winner. And now on to the news. On Sunday night, I just happened to check Twitter to see a whole ton of infosec professionals talking about a rumored new attack against WPA2. People said that it was legit, but no sources were given publicly. It turns out it is true, and WPA2 is vulnerable. WPA2 is the de facto Wi-Fi protocol that is suggested for securing your home networks and businesses. If you rely on wireless, uses WPA2. It has better encryption than the much older WEP, and it requires you to know a passphrase to login to a Wi-Fi network, hence the name which means Wi-Fi protected access. A flaw dubbed "crack" for Key Reinstallation Attack was discovered in the security of WPA2 by a security researcher named Mathy Vanhoff and presented at Black Hat Europe...
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