This worrying security flaw might let hackers hijack your Wi-Fi

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The IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol standard carries a security flaw that could allow threat actors to steal sensitive data and inject malicious content, researchers are saying.

Wi-Fi routers share between them network frames - data containers that include things like the MAC address of the source and destination endpoints, or control and management data.