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Re: Windows wireless flaw...

Subject: Re: Windows wireless flaw...
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:54:31 -0800 (PST)
Murad,

Has anyone tested this out? If so, what are you
thinking about doing to prevent it?

RTFB (ie, "Read The Fun Blog"), my friend:

"Anyway, you might be wondering now how you can make
sure your Windows laptop is protected from
this.....er, feature. First of all, if you are running
any kind of network firewall -- including the firewall
that comes built in to Windows XP -- you won't have to
worry about some stranger connecting to your laptop.
In fact, I had to shut down my firewall for both of us
to successfully conduct our test."

...and...

"Another good idea is to change the setting on the
computer's wireless card to connect only to
"infrastructure networks"..."

...and, oh, yeah...

"...Microsoft has acknowledged this vulnerability and
says it plans to change the default configuration  in
the next service packs..."

Hope that helps...

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Harlan Carvey, CISSP
"Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery"
http://www.windows-ir.com
http://windowsir.blogspot.com
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