While most enterprises probably don't use wireless within their firewalls,
I'm sure that there are a fair number of laptop users that plug into the
network via a cat 5 cable while their Airport card is still enabled from
using it at home. This could allow an attacker to compromise the
vulnerable laptop then hop into the internal network. While this would
require some specific conditions, it can't be entirely ruled out either.

Marc Fossi
Symantec Corp.
www.symantec.com

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Howard Oakley wrote:

> On 10/8/06 12:50, Radoslav Dejanoviæ wrote:
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>> This IS really bad for companies, for they can throw away their security
>> measures if all it takes to get the data is a vulnerable computer
>> reachable from the car parked outside the well guarded building.
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> How many corporates actually use wireless networking inside their firewalls
> etc.?
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> Unless they have very remote locations, I'd certainly never advise them to.
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> Howard.
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> Dr Howard Oakley
> The Works columnist for MacUser magazine (UK)
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