krack hack patch

What you say may be true; however, this remains an open vulnerability in Airport and Time Capsule products.

It would prove Apple's commitment to its customers to provide an update to fix this, even more so since they've abandoned the products.

I've been generally very happy with my Airport products, I think my 3TB Time Capsule is the 4th product in the Airport family I've owned starting with the flying model with the modem. The TC has restored a disk once, infrequently provided a needed lost file (maybe a couple of times), and in general done this while remaining invisible. I've had to trash a backup and start over once or maybe twice, but that's it. The Apple Airport products have all be been very good for their time.

I'll keep this thing going until the hard drive fails if Apple updates it.

Otherwise it's out the door in a few weeks.

JIC, I'm gonna be shopping around for a router with some additional security features besides no KRACK. And a new backup system.

Just updated my TC to 7.7.9 and I assume that this addresses recent issues that may exist in the TC.

Nice going Apple, I hadn't expected any updates since the product was discontinued.

I shopped for a new router, but found none that did everything I wanted in a replacement. Yet.

BTW - a recent update to Sierra seems to have solved my USB problem on restart that's been a problem since El Capitan. Cheers again. I'd update to High Sierra on this old iMac, but it would kill my old MS-Office.

Or connect the second router to the first router with a network cable rather than WiFi.

Hi, Bob

At home, I mainly use an iPad wifi-connected to an AirPort generation 2 router. This is fed by an Ethernet cable connected to an AirPort Extreme router. Will this avoid a Krack attack? Or will it be necessary to switch the router off, but if I do, will this cut the Ethernet feed? That is to say do the Extreme’s Ethernet feeds require power?

Ken

Don't worry, I'm not buying anything unless it has a fix of some sort.

There are a few routers with some network security protection built-in or available as add-ons. I've looked into them and some time ago I had hope that a future Apple Airport would be an industry leader in that too.

I've had Apple's since the MacPlus, but my 2014 Mini has been a major disappointment in so many ways I'm wavering for my next computer, BTW it runs High Sierra. El Capitan was a disaster on my iMac, fixed by Sierra. I can't update the iMac to High Sierra without buying a new version of Office, so my options are open for the future. We pound our Windows PCs at work hard and they never falter.

I hope Tim Cook realizes that brand loyalty has limits.

Not sure why you replied to me, quoting information that I did not provide.

My input was this.......If you want to know what Apple is or is not doing regarding this issue, you might want to wait for an official statement from Apple.

Third hand information, rumors, and speculation unfortunately appears in far too many forum posts.

Think about all the users....most of them using 3rd party wireless routers or ISP provided modem/routers....who have purchased an AirPort Express for use with AirPlay. I'll bet that 95% of them connect using wireless.

Most.....maybe 60-70% of Apple users who have set up an AirPort to extend a network are unfortunately using wireless to connect.....because they don't want to run the Ethernet cable.

I suspect you are absolutely right. There are a lot of apartments or old construction that are difficult to wire. I like wire and tend to use Cat-5/6 as much as I can rather than using WiFi, since so many devices are WiFi only these days. I like to keep as much as possible on wire to minimize wireless traffic. I buy 8-port switches for my TV areas so I can connect all of the TV related boxes to the network via wire.

"The router is not the base cause and cannot be hacked unless it acting as a client to another router ..."

What about AirPort Express box configured as WIFI extender? Is it considered as client or not?

The answer is not right when you pair the router with an other the router itself is a device which can hack. When is there a patch by Apple. I bought the router last week and it must be just supported!!!!

oddly enough, Harvey displaced us to an apartment

Well at least your being reasonable and polite with your answer.

Sorry I missed that. Thank you for the clarification. I have my various Airports and TimeCapsules all wired together, so I forget that some people connect them wirelessly.

JIC, I'm gonna be shopping around for a router with some additional security features besides no KRACK. And a new backup system.

Remember every other router is vulnerable.. not one is excluded.. this is a flaw in the WPA2 spec. Only a couple of companies have even announced firmware updates.. e.g. Ubiquiti and Cisco. As to be expected the more professional companies rather than domestic tend to be ahead of the curve.

Also all the clients are vulnerable.. you can fix the router and still get KRACKED>.. this is not only a router failure.. this is the whole WPA2 spec.

Certainly you can buy an Asus router today.. and use it with VPN.. connect all your wireless devices only through the vpn.. that means if the wireless is cracked.. the packets are still encrypted in the VPN tunnel. Expect about a 30% slow down in your transfer speeds at least.. maybe a lot more.

macOS 10.13.1, tvOS 11.1, iOS 11.1, watchOS 4.1 out today with a fix for the KRACK hack.