[IP] And a Mac Sniffer in a Pear Tree ...

[David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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• To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: for IP: And a Mac Sniffer in a Pear Tree ...
• From: Paul Kedrosky <pkedrosky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:21:41 -0700
• Thread-index: AcQ7Yd8WwhvD+HtxQp+VbF3z/SLOEg==

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):

- 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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