RE: Insecure wireless networks exposed

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Ed Dejesus <Ed.Dejesus () baltimore com>

You have to check out this web site, showing insecure wireless areas
in Canada. (Not that they're doing anything especially bad, that's
just what the site covers.) It's a hoot.


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> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:01 AM
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> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Art
> icle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026145015373&call_page=TS_Business&call_pageid=9
> 68350072197&call_pagepath=Business/News&col=969048863851
>
> By Tyler Hamilton
> Technology Reporter
> Sept. 10, 2002
>
> A local consulting firm launched a controversial Web site yesterday
> that shows gaping security holes in hundreds of wireless networks
> throughout the downtown core, including many in the financial
> district and some government and university areas.
>
> The consulting firm, irreverently called IpEverywhere, says about 75
> per cent of the more than 1,000 downtown wireless networks it has
> detected so far have no evidence of security and leave organizations
> wide open to information theft, data destruction, networking
> spamming and other cyber attacks.
>
> The company plotted its findings on a map found at
> http://www.nakedwireless.ca, which went live on the Internet
> yesterday afternoon. The map marks vulnerable networks with red
> pins, while black triangles indicate networks protected with WEP -
> "wireless equivalent privacy" - encryption.



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