[telecom] Wi-Fi chips in phones, tablets, vulnerable to DoS attack

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Wi-Fi chips in phones, tablets, vulnerable to DoS attack Summary: A vulnerability discovered in two Wi-Fi chipsets has placed a number of wireless devices at risk of a denial-of-service attack. By Michael Lee October 25, 2012 ZDNet

All anyone has to do to conduct a DDOS attack on an 802.11N network is pick up a 2.4GHz corless phone and dial a number. It's a radio signal, after all, and radios can be jammed.

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