WiFi flaws put laptop data at risk

Everyone's been predicting that increased wireless networking deployments would bring in a slew of new security risks and headaches, and this past week's news illustrates how right everyone was. Intel's announcement that there are three flaws within its software that could let hackers compromise Windows systems via WiFi radio communications and WiFi cards. That could put a great deal of data housed on laptop devices at risk, say security experts. The best approach at this point, until fixes come from card makers and PC makers, is to keep the laptop off the network as much as possible.

For more on the wireless security issues:
- see BusinessWeek's article on what's taking place