1,500 severe security events detected on Black Hat WLAN | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

The WLAN network at Black Hat was accessed by 3,155 attendees with a maximum of 904 simultaneous clients, detected and quickly contained a total of 1,561 severe independent security events.

 

These events included more than 280 rouge APs – with some rogue APs attempting to impersonate the official event network.

Other wireless attacks that were detected included Block ACK DoS attacks, Power Save DoS attacks, Deauth Broadcast, AP Spoofing and “Hotspotter” attacks.

 

The network also detected some malicious fragmentation-based attacks from the wired side, which were all contained very quickly.

 

Read more, a MUST:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13339