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Wireless Vulnerabilities

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION and networking technologies have seen rapid growth and adoption over the past few years. Businesses and consumers have adopted wireless technologies for their ability to allow users to be more mobile, unencumbered by wires. Additionally, adopters have taken to the technology because it can allow connections to computers in areas where wires cannot reach or would be expensive to install. Wireless has become one of the most widely used technologies by both consumers and businesses and will most likely continue to be so.

While wireless offers many benefits, one of the concerns of the technology is security. Wireless technologies have many security issues that must be addressed by ...

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