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802.11 WiFi Denial of Service Exploit Discovered

Posted by simoniker on from the block-block-kick dept.

CRC'99 writes "The Queensland University of Technology has today announced yet another flaw in 802.11 products. AusCERT has the official statement, noting: 'An attacker using a low-powered, portable device such as an electronic PDA and a commonly available wireless networking card may cause significant disruption to all WLAN traffic within range, in a manner that makes identification and localisation of the attacker difficult.' Nice to know that a simple PDA could bring a WiFi network to its knees."

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  1. jammers? by tasinet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    weren't they called JAMMERS back in the nice radio-sharks times? Jam the 11 802.11 band frequencies and you have a "DoS" attack...