Wireless Observer wireless technology observer

Seems like the era of Wired Equivalent Privacy ( WEP ) is over, although it’s still in wide use in the retail world and in devices that can’t be upgraded: what is the solution? The best offense is a good defense. AirDefense announced its WEP Cloaking tool to bolster its wireless monitoring and intrusion detection system back in April, which flooded Wi-Fi networks with WEP packets designed to mislead cracking tools by providing information that would drastically increase computation time or ruin calculations. AirTight, a competitor, now enters the market with WEP Guard. The company says “WEP chaffing,” or the insertion of many illegitimate packets as in AirDefense’s method isn’t a real approach. Instead, their system monitors for weak initialization vectors from existing devices, and detects active WEP cracking tools. They also claim they can stop an intrusion when a WEP key is compromised.