#HANDSHAKER FOR KINDLE PATCH#
This patch would come in the form of a new wpa_supplicant, which is a small program that controls the wireless protocols on the device. On January 8th, 2019, Amazon stated that they could replicate the bugs and had prepared patches that would be pushed out to affected devices in the coming weeks.
#HANDSHAKER FOR KINDLE UPDATE#
Security update released for affected Amazon devicesĮSET responsibly disclosed these bugs to Amazon on October 23rd, 2018 and was told that Amazon would look into the issues. The researchers also discovered that the Amazon Home Assistant was affected by an unrelated vulnerability that could allow an attacker to steal packets or perform a DoS attack.
Millions of Amazon Echo 1st generation and Amazon Kindle 8th generation are susceptible to an old WiFi vulnerability called KRACK that allows an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack against a WPA2 protected network.