Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 08:22
Scott Armitage, Loughborough University
October 2011
Wireless networks have become ubiquitous as a means of connecting to a network. It is unlikely that there are any remaining academic institutions in the UK which don’t offer some kind of wireless networking. However, many wireless network operators have little knowledge regarding the possible ways in which their wireless infrastructure can be attacked. This document briefly describes some of the common attacks which can be performed against IEEE 802.11 based networks.