August 25th, 2009, 04:46 PM
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| A hero in training
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| Cisco wireless LANs at risk of attack, 'skyjacking'
Cisco wireless LANs at risk of attack, 'skyjacking' | InSecurity Complex - CNET News Quote:
Cisco Systems wireless local area network equipment used by many corporations around the world is at risk of being used in denial-of-service attacks and data theft, according to a company that offers protection for WLANs.
Researchers at AirMagnet, which makes intrusion-detection systems for WLANs, discovered the vulnerability, which affects all lightweight Cisco wireless access points, as well as the exploit that could be used against networks that have the Over-the-Air-Provisioning (OTAP) feature turned on
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DUN DUN DUN!
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Cisco rates the vulnerability as unlikely to be used. It notes that in order to exploit the hole, an attacker would have to be able to deploy a Cisco controller within radio range of a newly installed AP
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Cisco Downplays WLAN Vulnerability - Business Center - PC World
Good thing the controllers arent cheap! 
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