#wi-fi
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Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Hands Nearby Attackers Root on Routers
Researcher Quentin Kaiser showed that a bug in Broadcom's own WPS code lets an attacker within Wi-Fi range run code as root — with no network password and no pairing. There is no patch and no CVE.
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Comcast Routers Learned to Spot Motion in Your Home — and to Share It
Comcast has turned its Wi-Fi routers into motion sensors, but, as Bruce Schneier points out, the terms of service hide a clause about handing that data to third parties.
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Wi-Fi 8 Bets on Reliability, Not Speed
For the first time in years, the new wireless standard steps away from the chase for throughput and focuses on the stability of home networks.
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Delta Flight Passengers Suspected of “Evil Twin” Attack After DEF CON
A fake Wi-Fi network with a phishing page appeared aboard a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta. The FBI is looking into the incident, which happened the day after the DEF CON hacking conference.
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Hacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates Carrying a Spyware Trojan
Microsoft has detailed an operation dubbed CaptiveCrunch: through hijacked hotel networks, guests are served bogus browser updates that lead to the CornFlake trojan, which can reach the camera, microphone and keyboard.
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Realtek RTL8723BS Driver for Linux Hardened Against Malicious Wi-Fi Access Points
In the round of staging-driver fixes landing ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release, the bulk of the work went into the Realtek RTL8723BS driver, closing vulnerabilities that arise when connecting to malicious access points.