WPA3 is the new last-generation standard intended to make Wi-Fi networks much safer in use by ordinary people, it was announced "with great fanfare" last year by the organization that develops these protocols. Unfortunately, it seems that the WPA3 standard for Wi-Fi is no more secure than the WPA2 one, having very serious vulnerabilities that allow hackers to steal users' passwords at least as easily.
WPA3 should have been much more resistant to dictionary-type attacks, that is, those in which an attacker would try to guess the login password by trying various combinations, hoping that the right one will be "hit". Unfortunately, it seems that the reality is different, and WPA3 is not as secure as many want to believe, the new EAP technology being also vulnerable, hackers being able to assume the identity of a user, without breaking his password.
WPA3 Wi-Fi has just as BIG PROBLEMS as WPA2
The organization that created the WPA3 standard says that these vulnerabilities were discovered and exploited for preliminary implementations of the standard in the WPA3-Personal configuration. This configuration would be in the preliminary stages of the implementation process in products, and the manufacturers who would have been brought to their attention these problems with WPA3, would have started to find solutions to block the vulnerabilities before bringing their products to the market.
The next-generation Wi-Fi Protected Access protocol released 15 months ago was once hailed by key architects as resistant to most types of password-theft attacks that threatened its predecessors. On Wednesday, researchers disclosed several serious design flaws in WPA3 that shattered that myth and raised troubling new questions about the future of wireless security, particularly among low-cost Internet-of-things devices.
WPA3 is the future of Wi-Fi networks, or at least that is what the new technology is supposed to be, but for now it seems that it is not quite ready to deal with the problems that arise when hackers start to look carefully at such new technologies . WPA3 is still just at the beginning, there are very few routers that have implemented it, so it remains to be seen how quickly these problems will be solved, and how difficult it will be for us to actually use it.
