[NEWS] - IEEE 802.11 Denial of Service

[CougTek]

A vulnerability exists in hardware implementations of the IEEE 802.11 wireless protocol that allows for a trivial but effective attack against the availability of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices.

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Submitted by Senior Bebedor

 

[sechs]

So you can jam wireless. Is this somehow surprising?

 

[Howell]

If you would read the article you would not be mistaken.

 

[blakerwry]

This vulnerability sounds intrinsic to all collision avoidance networks where a single medium is shared between multiple computers.

 

[ddrueding]

This vulnerability sounds intrinsic to all collision avoidance networks where a single medium is shared between multiple computers.

Agreed, shutting down hub or ring based networks used to be a cinch. It wasn't until switching tech got good that networks became even remotely reliable.