New flaw takes WiFi off the air

New flaw takes WiFi off the air
Patrick Gray, SecurityFocus 2004-05-13

A newly-discovered vulnerability in the 802.11 wireless standard allows attackers to jam wireless networks within a radius of one kilometre using off-the-shelf equipment.

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New flaw takes WiFi off the air 2004-05-13
Anonymous

This flaw is not new by any means. A usenix paper was published over a year ago on it, however its been around longer than that.

Put into practice, its not a very effective DoS....

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Who didn't know this from the start? 2004-05-13
Anonymous

I'm pretty sure everyone who knew anything about 802.11 knew from the start that it could be trivially jammed.

Even if you aren't technically inclined, you can still tell that there's the potential for jamming when your card doesn't work while another appliance is plugged-in, and reports of tha...

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New flaw takes WiFi off the air 2004-05-18
Mark Osborne

Most good security bods know of the risk of DOS in 802.11 - Most will have used Wl*jack, F*jack or Voi* to demonstrate it (one of my mates uses his sons video sender to jam 802.11b in workshops). Despite this, we are still seeing 802.11 impementations in mission (even life) critical situations - wit...

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