6 Wireless Threats to Your Business
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If you think a promiscuous client is a scantily-dressed customer, you're in trouble. And I'm not talking about having an affair. Think an evil twin is a horror-movie villain? Wrong again. The horror you should be bracing yourself for is not on the silver screen — and it's not from a rolling pin flung at you from across the kitchen, for that matter. Rather, the trouble is in the airwaves and targeted to Wi-Fi users. Both the "Promiscuous Client" and the "Evil Twin" are two of the latest wireless threats to your small business. If you haven't heard of them, you probably will soon. "What would happen to your business if your strongest competitor gained access to all of your data?" asks Greg Phillips, chief executive for AirTegrity Wireless, Inc., a Stateline, Nev. wireless security company. "Unfortunately, it is a very real possibility if appropriate controls against these new threats are not exercised." So what's out there? The Evil Twin. One of the most popular new threats to Wi-Fi users is the Evil Twin, sometimes referred to as WiPhishing. It's a rogue access point that replicates another network name, such as that of a
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