SecurityRatty: Air Defense is hijacking WAPs at Infosec World

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Air Defense is hijacking WAPs at Infosec World

2008-03-11 11:45:53 by HASH0x8ae98e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years

Blogging this from my 8525 phone using Type Pad mobile software so please excuse any typos. Here at the show if you fire up your laptop and your machine looks for its preferred connections Air Defense will have their WAPs spoof the SSID of the preferred network. Then you get connected to the Air Defense WAP and you are redirected to their advertising site.

I have nothing against marketing but think that is pretty sleazy. If they have their WAP SSID labeled correctly and you want to connect to it fine. But hijacking other SSIDs is wrong. Shame on Air Defense.