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802.11 WiFi Denial of Service Exploit Discovered

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:42PM 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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Re:Important information by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-12 22:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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