posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:32 PM
by
demiliani
802.11 WiFi flaw discovered...
The Queensland University of Technology today has announced the discover of a new flaw in 802.11 wireless protocol.
The vulnerability is related to the medium access control (MAC) function of the IEEE 802.11 protocol. Seems that an attacker using a low-powered, portable device such as an electronic PDA and a commonly available wireless networking card may cause significant disruption to all WLAN traffic within range, in a manner that makes identification and localisation of the attacker difficult.
Not a good news for WiFi I think... a low-powered device can cause DOS problems to a WiFi network? Terrible... 
You can find more info here.