Wi-Fi Vulnerability

Damn those hackers or whatever they’re called now. Just when I was beginning to enjoy the glory of having a wi-fi capable laptop (and stealing my neighbor’s bandwidth), Intel announces this news.

On Aug. 1, Intel issued a bulletin warning of three flaws in the software that lets its Wi-Fi radios communicate with the Windows operating system. Although the company said that it knew of no active exploitation of the flaws, one of them was especially dangerous because it could allow an attacker to take remote control of a computer over the air.

Read more about it here.

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