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communication such as sending and receiving emails, conducting mobile e-commerce
transactions, and other data transmission which they expect will be kept as private as
possible (Miller, 2001). The ongoing challenge of the WLAN development group is to
ensure that those data will always be secured and private since hackers and intruders
will not stop in finding ways to crack and attack the WLAN technology as well.
WLANs are vulnerable to various security threats such as the man in the middle attack
and also the denial of service attack. The security attacks discussed in this chapter is to
provide a preliminary understanding on the various attacks that can be attempted on
WLANs technology. The discussion on the 802.11 security issues provides an
overview of the problems not just from technological perspective but also from the
social perspective. The researches that have been completed to understand the actual
situation and position of WLANs security awareness at several locations have provided
valuable information regarding the state of WLANs security not just to other researchers
but also to organizations residing in those affected area. The information gathered in
the Lin et al. (2004) will be used to identify and compare the progress of WLANs
security status in Auckland CBD between 2004 and 2007.
The next chapter discusses the research methodology for this dissertation.
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