Fluke Networks have updated their AirMagnet Enterprise 9.0 wireless intrusion detection and prevention system. The updates offer protection against wireless threats and vulnerabilities, including Karmetasploit and Apple’s new AirDrop feature.
By using its proprietary Dynamic Threat Update (DTU) technology, AirMagnet Enterprise offers the only wireless LAN security system that can quickly generate signature updates for immediate protection and automatically push them to customers without requiring scheduled downtime or additional IT resources.
To help protect AirMagnet Enterprise customers against the changing WLAN vulnerabilities and threats, the following new signature updates have been released:
* AirDrop – Apple’s Mac OS® X Lion includes the new AirDrop feature that lets multiple users share files wirelessly, creating security risks that could result in protected data being easily transferred to unknown machines outside of the enterprise network; potentially leaving the network vulnerable to other active attacks.
* Karmetasploit – This is an aggressive man in the middle (MitM) style attack that tricks a client into associating with a device masquerading as an access point running KARMA.
* DHCP Starvation Attack – A DHCP starvation attack run from a wireless client can cause other clients to connect to a malicious network.