AirDefense Reports Nearly 2,500 Wireless Attacks at Defcon

Hackers at DefCon launched nearly 2,500 wireless attacks over a two-day, 10-hour monitoring period, finds an AirDefense study. AirDefense, the leader in Anywhere, Anytime wireless security and monitoring, reports the level of attacks gained in complexity over the last year. It also reported a new wi-phishing attack in addition to large numbers of Evil Twin attacks.

"The attacks we saw at DefCon this year are quite different from last year in that the level of complexity has increased significantly over the past 12 months," according to Richard Rushing, chief security officer of AirDefense. "Last year hackers simply wanted to imitate or masquerade as access points. Now the same hackers were looking to inject traffic into the data stream."