Businesses using some of the more advanced methods for securing
connections to Wi-Fi access points need to take a hard look at the
configuration settings of client computers. So say researchers who
have documented a simple way to impersonate trusted networks.
The attack works on access points that use the Wi-Fi Protected Access
(WPA) in concert with Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
(PEAP) or other so-called Extensible Authentication Protocols (EAPs).
Such technologies use public-key certificates to authenticate a
trusted network to a laptop or other connected device and provide an
encrypted SSL tunnel through which the two can communicate.
Problem is, laptops running Windows, OS X and various versions of
Linux frequently have the security settings mis-configured, according
to researchers Brad Antoniewicz and Josh Wright. Using a program
called FreeRADIUS-WPE (short for FreeRADIUS Wireless Pwnage Edition),
it's easy to dupe the clients into connecting to imposter networks
and giving up critical information, they say.
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