New vulnerabilities to DoS attacks in Wi-Fi

The use of Wi-Fi / 802.11 wireless networks is steadily increasing despite many studies reporting security problems, Dr. Gianluigi Me, a Professor at the University of Tor Vergata of Rome, Italy and a staff member at the Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF), together with Dr. Francesco Ferreri have just published "New vulnerabilities to DoS attacks in 802.11 networks", a Wi-Fi Security paper highlighting the newly discovered dangers, suggesting remedies and possible defenses.

When you think of DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, you are likely to have in mind the usual disruption to a particular web site having been flooded with millions of requests in the shortest possible time. This action whether malicious or innocent, can slow a site down to a crawl or renders its services unavailable. Some disruption of this sort can however be innocent and can occur as a result of a sudden rise in traffic. 802.11 or Wi-Fi networks DoS attacks present a different picture, altogether probably more lethal than we think.