Coffee houses are great places to sniff and steal for credentials to various corporate networks.

Also, just sitting outside the home of the a C-level executive is a good place too - sniff away and spooof his account later.

But actually, there ARE ways to protect your wi-fi / 802.11 networks against stolen credentials and that block laptops what have been stolen and that may be used to try to access the corparate WLAN.

You do know that there is a growing black market trading and paying money for these stolen credentials? And where money is concerned, attackers get very sophisticated. And no, they won't tell you you've been hacked.

Learn more here: http://www.newburynetworks.com/events/whyencryption.php

- Why WPA2 / 802.11i encryption still leaves your wireless networks open to unauthorized access from hackers.

- How encryption standards like 802.11i or 802.11x are cracked, compromised, or circumvented.

- How to construct a hard WLAN security perimeter of any size & shape that you manage and control.

- How to distinguish between legitimate WLAN users and intruders inside or outside your department, floor, building, campus or base.

- How to administer policies to centrally integrate, manage and control network resources: for example defining content and resource availability based on an individual's "user-group" and their location on your WLAN