Sorry, I should have offered more explanation.
You are also absolutely vulnerable on your home network, however, an attacker would need to be within physical range of your wifi do to anything, which unless they happen to be living next door would not be an issue. Whereas a public wifi with lots of people on is an easy target as you can join and nobody would notice.
For most people not using wifi at home for X weeks is not an option which is why I did not say not to switch that off. We've switched off ours at work as a precaution, I know a few other companies that have done similar.
FWIW you will not need to update your router or access point for a fix.
As an update though
- Microsoft have released a patch which everyone should have today if you're using Windows, make sure to install all updates to ensure it's patched.
- Apple have one on the way, it's already been implemented and is going through their testing cycle
- Google will be releasing a patch "in the coming weeks" which is a bit rubbish but there we go
- Linux has the patch available.
EDIT: Just noticed Ryorry that your ISP told you that you were safe. That's a flagrant lie. [Post edited 17 Oct 2017 12:52]
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