| Walt Mankowski via plug on 27 Feb 2026 13:19:10 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises |
This is one of those rare cases where it's good to read the comments on an article. Apparently this attack only works if you put the guest/public network on the same WLAN as the internal network. Walt On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:54:12AM -0500, jeffv via plug wrote: > New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and > enterprises > > https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/ > > AirSnitch "breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the > potential to enable advanced cyberattacks," Xin´an Zhou, the lead author of > the research paper, said in an interview. "Advanced attacks can build on our > primitives to [perform] cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our > research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated > attacks will work. It´s really a threat to worldwide network security." Zhou > presented his research on Wednesday at the 2026 Network and Distributed > System Security Symposium. > > https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug