Cisco warns wlan can be cracked

[denolth2]

http://www.itworldcanada.com/index.cfm?ci_id=48827&s=334096

[The_Lurker]

I was just reading this today.

here's some more.....


"By Unstrung
Posted: 03/10/2003 at 00:00 GMT

One of the highlights of the first-ever Unstrung Live conference in New York today was the demonstration -- by a real, live hacker, no less -- of just how easy it is to break into Cisco Systems Inc.'s proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless LAN security mechanism and gain unauthorized access to supposedly secure 802.11 networks.

Joshua Wright, an information security architect (a.k.a. a hacker) from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, demonstrated -- to an audience of around 200 people -- a tool he has developed to exploit flaws in the LEAP technology.

"I call it 'Asleep' -- as in asleep at the wheel," Wright quipped.

This kind of hack involves the use of two applications. The first is the 'Kismet' Linux wireless LAN network sniffer, which is similar to the popular 'Netstumbler' tool that is available on Windows. Wright says he uses this tool to track down Cisco access points that are broadcasting in the area...."

heres the original artical-----> http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=41185