“ThinkSECURE has discovered that certain well-known wireless chipsets, using vulnerable drivers under the Windows XP operating system and when configured to use WEP with Open Authentication, can be tricked by a 802.11-based wireless client adapter operating in master mode (“the attacker”) to discard the WEP settings and negotiate a post-association conection with the attacker in the clear.”
Linksys WRT54G, $39.00 from buy.com
Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA 802.11G wireless adapter, $39.00 from buy.com
The above two items are also shipped free, so for $80.00 you can get an entirely new wireless setup. Not bad.
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