IT managers and security experts have expressed alarm at a new hacking tool for accessing supposedly secure wireless local area networks (WLANs), which is freely available on the Internet. The tool, called AirSnort, can recover encryption keys used to protect data . . .
IT managers and security experts have expressed alarm at a new hacking tool for accessing supposedly secure wireless local area networks (WLANs), which is freely available on the Internet. The tool, called AirSnort, can recover encryption keys used to protect data sent over wireless networks by exploiting flaws in the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security protocol, used to encrypt data carried on 802.11b WLANs. Earlier this year, IT Week Labs found that current WEP offerings were inadequate for securing data.

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