How to secure Wireless Networks
You have probably followed the news and heard about AirTight Networks’ demonstration of the WPA2 design flaw. What does this mean for operators of wireless networks? Do you have to care? Do you feel threatened? Is there a way to feel better again? First take a look what the design flaw means and what the attack looks like. Hole 196 means that „an insider can bypass WPA2 private key encryption and authentication to sniff and decrypt data from other authorized users as well as scan their Wi-Fi devices for vulnerabilities, install malware and possibly compromise those Wi-Fi devices”. So an attacker has to be authenticated before she can use the exploit. This does not mean that „WPA2” is compromised entirely (yet). It just means that we (maybe) deal with a design flaw. Attacking „WPA2”