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Vulnerability, Potential Exploit In Cisco WLAN APs 35

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @08:37AM from the just-wrap-it-in-tin-foil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The AirMagnet Intrusion Research Team has uncovered a new wireless vulnerability and potential exploit associated with Cisco wireless LAN infrastructure. The vulnerability involves Cisco's Over-the-Air-Provisioning (OTAP) feature found in its wireless access points. The potential exploit, dubbed SkyJack by AirMagnet, creates a situation whereby control of a Cisco AP can be obtained, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to gain access to a customer's wireless LAN."

The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:11PM from the because-he-said-so dept.

An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."

Comment Not Until It Runs Linux (Score 1) 978

by jman sr on Tuesday November 22, 2005 @05:15PM (#14094742) Attached to: Xbox 360?

I like my original Xbox quite a bit, but only because it is a $150 Linux running computer. I might buy a 360, but if it can't run Linux I'm not all that interested.

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