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Security Vulnerability in Apple's AirPort Base Station

Posted by pudge on from the newsflash-wireless-is-insecure dept.

inditek writes "At Stake has issued a security warning today about a vulnerability in Apple's AirPort Base Station: 'Apple's AirPort device is a wireless access point, providing 802.11 services to network clients. Authentication credentials are obfuscated, and then sent over the network. If an AirPort is administered over the Ethernet interface or via an insecure (non WEP) wireless connection, an attacker that can sniff the network can obtain administrative access to the AirPort.'"

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  1. Not really a big problem. by Photar · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Considering most Airports are at home.

    Oh no the hackers are telnetting from inside the house!

    Besides if you're using a switch instead of a stupid hub they can't sniff you anyway.

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  2. Re:Er.. since when has WEP been "secure"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, WEP isn't secure, but even without WEP some access points take some efforts to make the admin access a little less easy to get, since it's just hanging out out there.

    The point of the security advisory is that this access point's efforts in that realm are really silly and make it worse than the other access points. None of them are really "secure." The part you quoted seems to allude or infer that some are, and that's kind of dumb of them to say - but you're getting distracted from the point.