Η Wi-Fi Alliance announcement, which are various device makers, such as Apple, Microsoft and Qualcomm, announced Monday the next-generation WPA3 wireless security standard.
The standard will replace WPA2, a security protocol that's been around for nearly two decades and is built in to protect nearly every wireless devicetoday, such as phones, laptops, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
One of the key improvements in WPA3 is aimed at solving a common security problem: the open networks Wi-Fi. TOpen Wi-Fi networks at cafes and airports are very convenient but unencrypted, allowing anyone on the same network to monitor data sent from other devices.
WPA3 uses a very personalized data encryption, which shuffles the connection between every device on the network and the router (router), ensuring that the circulating data is kept secure and that the sites you visit are not maliciously processed.
Another basic upgrade to WPA3 comes to protect against brute-force attacks, making it much harder for attackers near your Wi-Fi network to test lists of potential passwords.
The new wireless security protocol will prevent any intruder from having some failed password speculation.
The WPA2, a wireless security standard that has been around since 2004, uses a (4-way) handshake to allow new devices that have the code access to join a network.
The newer WPA3 will use a new kind of handshake that will not be vulnerable to attacks brute-force that use random password lists.
The new WPA3 security standard is expected to be released later this year.
