Article: AirPatrol Reports Security Vulnerabilities from Unofficial Access Points at RSA


Wireless News
04-28-2009
AirPatrol Reports Security Vulnerabilities from Unofficial Access Points at RSA
Type: News

AirPatrol, a mobile and wireless threat management solutions company, announced results of wireless monitoring it conducted Wednesday, April 22, at the RSA Conference, an information security conference, using its Wireless Locator System Version 3.0 product.

AirPatrol discovered 2,792 WiFi client devices, including smart phones, PDAs and laptops in use. While the WiFi network offered by RSA Conference organizers was well secured, AirPatrol discovered 94 unofficial (potentially rogue) access points which were not affiliated with the conference organizers.
A large fraction of ...

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