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p2p news / p2pnet: BlueBag was a recent Italian experiment designed to highlight vulnerabilities in Bluetooth devices.
Now two researchers have used LORCON (Loss of Radio Connectivity), an open-source 802.11 hacking tool, to throw an extremely large number of wireless packets at different wireless cards.
The result?
The, "digital equivalent of a drive-by shooting," as InfoWorld has one of them, research engineer David Maynor, saying.
An attacker could exploit the flaw, called fuzzing, "by simply sitting in a public space and waiting for the right type of machine to come into range," says the story.
