GoKawiil16-year-old Broadcom Wi-Fi flaw leaves millions of routers open to remote attack
Security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed a vulnerability he named WPSplinter in Broadcom's WPS code at the Hexacon conference in Paris. He showed that an attacker within Wi-Fi range, without the password, could extract network keys or gain a remote shell on affected routers, and confirmed the bug on gateways used by three of Belgium's four major ISPs.