WLAN Insecurity Remains a Threat

Despite all of the attention being paid these days to security, and in particular wireless security, the message apparently hasn't gotten through to everyone, including many vendors.

AirDefense Inc., a wireless LAN security company, set up one of its sensors on the show floor at last week's Networld+Interop show in Las Vegas, and in just two hours of monitoring found 230 wireless access points, including 92 that were transmitting their traffic in the clear without encryption. There were also 38 access points that were configured incorrectly, with either overlapping channels or conflicting authentication methods.

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