'Autoimmune Disease' attacks Wi-Fi Networks

'Autoimmune Disease' attacks Wi-Fi Networks

Wi-Fi Networks are now the subject of a brutal attack of 'autoimmune disorder'. It is triggered by sending specially crafted packets to some networks that use open source and commercial 802.11 application program systems. This forces the networks to lock out their legitimate users. 
Airtight Networks will uncover how they compromised eight different wireless networks by persuading their security systems to lock out legitimate users. This will be unveiled at the  Defcon-16 security conference this week. Lead researcher Sohail Ahmad works on the mitigation of various security aspects of IEEE 802.11w and IEEE 802.11n standards and their implementations. He has also demonstrated the more potent form of Evil Twin Attack, "Multipot". He discovered the "Caffe Latte" attack, which retrieves a wireless encryption protocol (WEP) key from an isolated client without using its authorised access point.