{"id":75167,"date":"2018-01-11T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tougher-wifi-security-will-keep-you-safe-at-the-coffee-shop"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:02:44","slug":"tougher-wifi-security-will-keep-you-safe-at-the-coffee-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tougher-wifi-security-will-keep-you-safe-at-the-coffee-shop","title":{"rendered":"Tougher WiFi security will keep you safe at the coffee shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tougher-wifi-security-will-keep-you-safe-at-the-coffee-shop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WiFi security hasn\u2019t changed much since WPA2 came to be in 2004, and that\u2019s becoming increasingly apparent when public hotspots are frequently risky and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/16\/wifi-vulnerability-krack-attack\/\">glaring exploits<\/a> are all too common. It\u2019s about to get a long-due upgrade, though: the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/news-events\/newsroom\/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements\">roll out<\/a> a WPA3 standard that addresses a number of weak points. For many, the highlight will be individualized data encryption. Even if you\u2019re on an open public network, you won\u2019t have to worry quite so much about someone snooping on your data.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also see safeguards even when people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/11\/01\/paul-manafort-passwords-reference-james-bond\/\">terrible passwords<\/a>, and a simplified security process for devices that have either a tiny display or none at all (say, wearable devices or smart home gadgets). And companies or governments that need stricter security will have access to a 192-bit security suite.<\/p>\n<p>WPA3 should arrive sometime in 2018, and comes on the back of other improvements like more thorough testing to catch potential vulnerabilities <em>before<\/em> they require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/16\/microsoft-already-has-krack-attack-wifi-fix\/\">emergency patches<\/a>. These initiatives aren\u2019t going to guarantee airtight security when you\u2019re at the coffee shop, but they could at least eliminate some of WiFi\u2019s more worrying flaws.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/08\/wifi-alliance-wpa3-standard\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/08\/wifi-alliance-wpa3-stand...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WiFi security hasn\u2019t changed much since WPA2 came to be in 2004, and that\u2019s becoming increasingly apparent when public hotspots are frequently risky and glaring exploits are all too common. It\u2019s about to get a long-due upgrade, though: the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to roll out a WPA3 standard that addresses a number of weak points. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,15,418,1492,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-habitats","category-internet","category-security","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75265,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions\/75265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}