10-16-2017, 09:27 PM
Hi, today a post came out on the Wordfence blog describing a couple of vulnerabilities (see https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/10/krack-and-roca/ ). One of these is in the Wi-Fi WPA-2 protocol. The other is to do with public key authentication. These are not specific solely to Linux, but they affect a huge range of devices.
My question is, are we vulnerable and if so, is there any software that we should be installing on our Linux Lite machines to help protect/mitigate against these vulnerabilities? Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thank you.
EDIT (Jerry): Further reading:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3455-1/
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519
White paper for the geeks - https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/ccs2017.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4WURZoR98
My question is, are we vulnerable and if so, is there any software that we should be installing on our Linux Lite machines to help protect/mitigate against these vulnerabilities? Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thank you.
EDIT (Jerry): Further reading:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3455-1/
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/228519
White paper for the geeks - https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/ccs2017.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4WURZoR98
Using Linux Lite for everything now. I put it on my desktop and my laptop. Woohoo!