Windows Wi-Fi vulnerability discovered

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Very good

The issue is that clients cannot distinguish between a legit access point or another client. There are solutions that force clients to only connect to designated access points, but are usually poorly implimented.

Using your company's offerings are only suitable for businesses who just happen to be large enough to have a full time IT security staff to actively enforce the firm's wi-fi security policies. Those firms who cannot afford such a staff are the most vulnerable to war-driving and other attack vectors.

Real IT security is active viligence:

- Today's near-bullet-proof security stance is dynamic and can be rendered ineffective tomorrow through changes from numerous (and normally harmless) administrative routines.

- Configuration settings are too easily corrupted and is usually not noticed until a security breach is detected.

- Security configurations are never a set and forget process.

As far as firewalls being effective in mitigating the potential threat - firewalls only keep script kiddies out. Most hackers, both black-hats and white-hats, know how to bypass most firewalls and intrusion detection systems. While script kiddies are a major headache, cybercriminals are the real threat (they trade in more than just identity theft and credit card numbers); for example: cyber-extortion and blackmail are a serious issue among US law firms, where their client data and other digital documents are hacked by cybercriminals who then threaten a law firm with public exposure if payment is not made.

Posted by: cburgess-iPALADIN   Posted on: 01/21/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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