A research into the latent danger of WLAN

Nowadays, WLANs has permeated through our daily lives. In fact, many companies are considering to abandon the wired LAN, because it´s old-style and clumsy. People prefer to deploy a more flexible and convenient wireless LAN comparing to the traditional wired one. While people are enjoying the ease and agility brought by WLAN, a grave threat to your WLAN´s security may be lying ahead because of the loopholes of itself. And if this cannot draw public´s attention, severe consequences will definitely follow. This study´s goal is to arouse people´s watchfulness through our research on the security of the WLANs around us. We will thoroughly analyze the latent weakness of WLANs´ both encryption modes-WEP and WPAWPA2, and finally we will propose a series of effective solutions to strengthen your WLAN.