During the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston, wireless security company AirDefense monitored WLAN activity and published their findings in the July 2003 edition of WLAN Watch newsletter. These are some of the fun facts AirDefense stumbled across. Suspicious and malicious activity at the 802.11 Planet Expo included:
- 149 network scans from tools such as Netstumbler, Wellenreiter and commercial scanners
- 105 Denial-of-Service attacks that included 27 de-authenticate attacks against stations, 48 de-authenticate attacks against access points, 12 de-authenticate "cloud" attacks, 16 ARP floods and two EAP floods against authentication servers
- 84 identity thefts where user stations spoofed MAC addresses of other stations or access points;
- Three successful Man-in-the-Middle attacks (32 were attempted); and
- Eight instances where malicious stations searched for known exploits in access points.
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