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Karen Mc Cabe
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Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Feds look at wireless LANs
FYI re: IEEE 802.11x and a US government recommendation.
Karen McCabe
Senior Marketing Manager, IEEE Standards
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Piscataway NJ 08855 USA
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Yahoo! News
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Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Feds look at wireless LANs
08/19/2002 03:12 PM
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Marsha Longshore (m.longshore@ieee.org) has sent you a news article
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FYI.. Deb, this goes with the NIST newsletter item you just mentioned.
Feds look at wireless LANs
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By Ellen Messmer, Network World (US)
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Sports A federal agency is readying a report that will recommend
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Oddly Enough Even though wireless LANs are a billion-dollar business and
growing fast, reports such as the one coming out from the
Op/Ed National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) continue
to dog the technology.
Lifestyle
Local Sources say, the U.S. Department of Defense ( news - web sites
) also is said to be considering restrictions on wireless LAN
Comics usage for classified and nonclassified environments.
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What NIST is advising
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Most Popular Among NIST's recommendations is that wireless LAN access
points be located only where no unauthorized individuals can
Audio/Video access them.
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With freeware such as AirSnort, hackers have been known to
Lottery access wireless LAN access points from up to 1,000 feet away.
Crosswords
NIST also suggests that agencies put firewalls between
wireless and wire-based LANs. Another 50 or so recom!
mendations will be included in the report, called "Wireless
News Resources Network Security."
The NIST report arrives at a time when the IEEE is attempting
Providers to standardize on port authentication in 802.11 wireless LANs.
Reuters
The proposed 802.1X standard addresses several authentication
AP types, including passwords, certificates, media access control
(MAC) addresses and the widely used Remote Authentication
Internet Report Dial-In User Service protocol. But 802.1Xs progress hasn't
been smooth, with a University of Maryland professor cracking
TechWeb the technology earlier this year and companies such as Cisco
Systems Inc. and Funk Software Inc. battling over how to
USA TODAY bolster it.
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But it's critical to move ahead on 802.1X because the 802.11b
MacCentral specification, as the NIST report points out, lacks any "true
authentication" of users. Only a user's wireless LAN-enabled
device is authenticated via what's called the Service Set
Identification (SSID).
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denial-of-servic The NIST report suggests that wireless LANs s! hould include
e VPN clients and gateways for privacy and authentication. Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the 802.11 standard for encryption,
Department of has been shown to be too easily broken using freeware such as
Defense WEPCrack.
wireless
Report cites helpful vendors
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Add Technology -
MacCentral to My Searching out wireless LAN vulnerabilities is becoming a
Yahoo! business. One start-up, AirDefense, has catalogued what it
says are 100 types of denial-of-service ( news - web sites)
attacks jamming the airwaves with noise to shut down wireless
LAN access points, 27 attacks to take over wireless LAN
stations, 490 different probes to scan wireless LANs for
weaknesses and 190 ways to spoof media access control (MAC)
addresses and SSIDs to assume the identity of another user.
"The MAC address is unique, so only one should be trying to
come into the wireless! LAN at a time," says Fred Tanvella,
chief security officer at AirDefense, which developed a
wireless LAN intrusion-detection sensor.
"So if someone is using a Cisco card and another a Lucent
(Technologies Inc.) card, and they're trying to fake it, we
can tell," he says.
Government contractor Science Applications International Corp.
(SAIC) is experimenting with a "honeypot" to detect and trap
hackers trying to break into wireless LANs from a distance
(sometimes referred to as "wardriving"). The goal is to gather
information about how hackers get in.
While SAIC officials declined to discuss the project in depth,
it is known to be based on Cisco wireless LAN access points
deployed in the Washington, D.C., area.
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