Is Your Wi-Fi Connection Safe? Here's What You Need to Know About the KRACK Attack

Your Wi-Fi connection is probably using the WPA2 security protocol. Yes, the one you're using right now. If there's a password for your Wi-Fi connection, and you're not nestled deep in the bowels of an enterprise-grade business campus that relies on stronger encryption tools, I'd bet good money that these very words flowed through a WPA2 connection.

Well, that WPA2 security protocol isn't completely safe anymore. Any device that runs WPA2 as originally designed is now open to a new attack known as KRACK -- short for "key reinstallation attack."

Read on to see how this affects you and what the providers of Wi-Fi systems are doing about it.

Source: Fool.com