Users of Windows laptops with Wi-Fi capabilities may be opening their hard drives up to snoopers, according to a security researcher. A bug in the way Windows manages wireless network connections means that people using their laptops in public places are frequently giving anyone in the area the means to invade their systems, according to Mark Loveless of Nomad Mobile Research Centre (NMRC).
Improved security, notebooks with built-in Wi-Fi clients and an eventual boom in mobile VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) around the office will cause the enterprise wireless LAN market to more than double in revenue by 2009, industry research company Dell'Oro Group Inc. predicted.
The market for The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) 802.11 wireless LAN equipment continued growing in the second quarter, driven in part by users embracing the recently standardized 802.11g technology.
There wasn't a lot of action around 11Mbps-rated IEEE 802.11b wireless LANs at the recently held NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas, aside from the show's own wireless net.