And a Mac Sniffer in a Pear Tree ...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Paul Kedrosky <pkedrosky () hotmail com>
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> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:21:41 -0700
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> The following is a laundry list of just some of the wireless network attacks
> and shenanigans that went on at this week's Networld + Interop trade show in
> Las Vegas. It is from an AirDefense press release
> (http://www.airdefense.net/newsandpress/05_13_04.shtm):
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> - 189 separate attacks on different devices 
> - 112 separate MAC spoofing attacks
> - 89 Denial of Service attacks
> - 42 authentication attacks, likely due to brute force attacks or
> misconfigured clients
> - 20 separate AirSnarf attacks
> - 4 separate Hotspotter attacks
> - 3 large Ad-Hoc mesh networks were re-established on day two with an
> average of 10 stations connected.
> - Another association was made with the Sear Service Toolbox (SST-PR-1) and
> the - network was attacked twice 
> - One Virtual Routing Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) attack, a routing tool
> attack to redirect traffic
> - 165 BlueJack attacks
> - 12 Blue Snarf attacks
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