The threat signature updates for Fluke’s AirMagnet Enterprise 9.0 wireless intrusion detection and prevention system offer protection against wireless threats and vulnerabilities, including Apple’s Mac OS X Lion AirDrop feature, Karmetasploit and DHCP starvation attack. The updates are suitable for both enterprise and government users.
By using its proprietary Dynamic Threat Update technology, AirMagnet Enterprise offers the only WLAN security system on the market that can quickly generate signature updates for immediate protection and automatically push them to users without requiring scheduled downtime or additional IT resources, claims Fluke.
AirDrop lets multiple users share files wirelessly, which can be a violation of company security policies, creating security risks that could result in protected data being easily transferred to unknown machines outside the enterprise network, potentially leaving the network vulnerable to other active attacks. Karmetasploit is an aggressive man-in-the-middle-style attack that can trick a client into associating with a device masquerading as an access point running KARMA. This can allow a hacker to, for instance, gain access to a client machine, capture passwords, harvest data and conduct a variety of application exploits. A DHCP starvation attack, when run from a wireless client, can cause other clients to connect to a malicious network. Wireless guest networks and unencrypted commercial hotspots are especially vulnerable to this attack, which can lead to lost productivity or revenue.