IP: Wireless networks wide open to hackers

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Wireless networks wide open to hackers
> A new way to attack wireless networks underscores the lack of security for 
> PC owners using the airwaves to connect their computers, said security 
> experts speaking at the Black Hat Briefings conference. On Thursday, Tim 
> Newsham, a researcher for security firm @Stake, presented the details of 
> weaknesses in the password system of wireless networks that could lead to 
> a break in security in less than 30 seconds. The flaw is the third to be 
> uncovered in the so-called Wired Equivalent Privacy, or WEP, protocol that 
> supposedly secures wireless networks.
> July 12, 2001, 10:35 a.m. PT | 
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