Physical Security and Safety

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information teChnology and seCurity

unique number to the router. is allows the devices on the trusted

list to automatically connect with no other action required by the

user. e problem with this type of security is that a MAC address

can be “spoofed,” making a computer appear to have a different

MAC address; this is easily done by anyone with a little networking

knowledge or ability to perform a simple web search. e only thing

required to execute this attack is a MAC address that has permission

to access the wireless network. In most cases, even on secured wire-

less networks, the MAC address of a computer is broadcast in plain

text repeatedly over the wireless signal, making it easy to intercept

the MAC address of a computer with wireless ...