WPA3, with new password protections and encrypted channels, will be running before 2018 ends.

"This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos, and so on."

Securing the connected, smart and increasingly autonomous cars of tomorrow against hackers and online criminals will only get harder, warns the Cloud Security Alliance.

Security researchers have found a crucial vulnerability in a popular chipset used in smartphones that allows for an attackers to launch a remote, Wi-Fi delivered virus to a targeted device.

New malware dubbed Switcher attacks Wi-Fi routers from Android devices on the network.