SECUR> SECURITY: Networks suffer from wireless insecurity
- From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:20:56 -0600
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Networks suffer from wireless insecurity
"Wardriving," the practice of searching for open wireless computer
networks, is just one of several issues facing wireless acceptance. The
802.11b standard has proven to be difficult to make secure. According to
numbers posted by the Worldwide Wireless Wardrive in November, more than 72
percent of the nearly 25,000 access points found by wardrivers around the
planet didn't even have the flawed wireless security standard known as
Wired Equivalent Privacy, or WEP, turned on. WEP itself has turned out to
be relatively straightforward to decrypt using over-the-counter technology.
However, an industry-standards group known as the Wi-Fi Alliance seeks to
make the open season on wireless networks a thing of the past. The Alliance
has created an interim privacy solution, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol,
to bolster the weak WEP standard. There is also a simpler version for home
use called Pre-Shared Key.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-983438.html
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