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Second Cisco WLAN Security Threat Exposed: Page 3 of 3

Cisco faced its second serious WLAN security threat this week when a network and security analyst released a tool that attacks the company's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless
April 09, 2004

He noted that the perception of insecurity has hurt adoption of WLANs in the enterprise, but that perception has been changing as security has improved.

This is the second threat to WLANs based on Cisco equipment this week. Wednesday, the company issued a security advisory about a security whole in its Wireless LAN Solution Engine, which centrally manages enterprise WLANs, and Hosting Solution Engine, which manages e-business services.

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