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July 24, 2007

Cisco Releases Wireless ARP Storm Patch

A Cisco security advisory entitled "Wireless ARP Storm Vulnerabilities" will, no doubt, read as a generic version of anything Duke's wireless networking team might have to say in the specific regarding The Great iPhone Scare of Ought-Seven.

If that's too much information, Ars Technica breaks it down in bitesize chunks. Nut:

"It doesn't say anywhere that the iPhone is the source of these test ARPs, but the timing and the fact that an Apple employee is one of the authors of the RFC that specifies the use of these test packets doesn't leave much room for doubt."

Side note: Here's a canned search of Google News for the terms "iphone" and "Duke." Yesterday the drift of headlines was still very much "'twas iPhone killed the WLAN." That changed some time since yesterday, with an overwhelming number of the headlines correcting last week's problematic reporting.

Previously:

• iPhones May Be Polite After All
• New Wi-Fi Blackberry Announced (Hope It's More Polite Than the iPhone)

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