A Review of the GL.iNet Slate AX Travel Router

As a wireless engineer who spends a good amount of time on the road for work and family trips, I’m often unhappy with the quality of the Wi-Fi in hotels, Airbnb’s, and shared workspaces I find myself in. In many of those places, deploying my own AP is a good solution when I can doContinue reading “A Review of the GL.iNet Slate AX Travel Router”

Mitigating the KRACK in WPA2 with WIPS

On Monday, security researcher Mathy Vanhoef disclosed a new vulnerability in the WPA/WPA2 four-way handshake, which has been branded KRACK. The attack is targeted and sophisticated, and it results in decrypting a TKIP or CCMP/AES encrypted session without knowledge of the PTK. WPA/WPA2-Personal and WPA/WPA2-Enterprise networks are vulnerable. The attack takes advantage of client sideContinue reading “Mitigating the KRACK in WPA2 with WIPS”