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Two of the more popular articles here on Pocket PC Addict are in our Tip of the week section and involve Securing your WiFi router from war drivers and pesky neighbors who want to surf for free. Although these walkthroughs aren't a "silver bullet" that protect against all exploits or attacks, we feel they do a pretty good job. A commentary over at eWeek addresses the phenomena of no "real" protection and how you should instead shoot for making the most of wireless security. First rule, make your network harder to access than the "next guy's" so the hacker will skip you for an easier target. "You've seen the problem: Your customers set up a wireless AP (access point) for their office, but they leave it wide open, not even setting up WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) to provide minimal protection.
Worse still, your client does set up state-of-the-art security with the recently ratified 802.11i protocol and guess what? Mere weeks later, Aruba Wireless Networks Inc. announces that their researchers have found a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) server security hack that can be used to pry open any wireless security infrastructure that keeps encryption keys in access points instead of a central switch.
Even if it is true that the 802.11i crack really is more of an attack on its wired RADIUS server than on 802.11i itself, the bottom line is that it now appears some 802.11i Wi-Fi connections are attackable. "
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