This Week in Security: Chrome Bugs and Non-bugs, Kr00k, and Letsencrypt

Google Chrome minted a new release to fix a trio of bugs on Monday, with exploit code already in the wild for one of them. The first two bugs don’t have much information published yet. They are an integer-overflow problem in Unicode internationalization, and a memory access issue in streams. …read more

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kr00k – Billions of Wi-Fi devices affected by encryption vulnerability

By Sudais Asif
The IT security researchers at ESET have disclosed a new vulnerability named Kr00k in FullMAC WLAN chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress.
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Billions of Devices Open to Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Attacks

The Kr00k bug arises from an all-zero encryption key in Wi-Fi chips that reveals communications from devices from Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and others. Continue reading Billions of Devices Open to Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Attacks