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Microsoft shuts down Krack with sneaky Windows update (WPA2 Wifi vulnerability update)
ComputerWorld ^ | Oct 16, 2017 | Gregg Keizer

Posted on 10/16/2017 9:38:44 PM PDT by dayglored

The company last week quietly patched vulnerabilities in the WPA2 protocol used to secure wireless networks, but did not reveal the fix until today.

Microsoft today revealed that it quietly patched Windows last week against vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.

Details of the security update were only published Monday to Microsoft's Security Update Guide, the catalog-like portal that earlier this year replaced the decades-old practice of delivering explanatory bulletins.

All supported versions of Windows received the update, according to the catalog listing, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: krack; wifi; windows; windowspinglist; wireless; wpa2
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To: hsmomx3
> Windows Update 1709.

That's the "Fall Creators Update", major update. I'm about to post a separate thread on it.

21 posted on 10/17/2017 2:38:52 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Thanks...just found it now.


22 posted on 10/17/2017 3:06:10 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: dayglored

Linux Mint (Ubuntu derivative) had the patches out today.


23 posted on 10/17/2017 5:11:34 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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