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So
Many Nodes, So Little Security
(New
York Times - December 12, 2002 - REGISTRATION
REQUIRED)
While driving along any Manhattan
street, you would not expect strangers to fling their private
correspondence and even their credit-card numbers at you as
you passed by. A recent survey
of Wi-Fi networks, however,
revealed not only the extent of Wi-Fi adoption - covering more
than 14,000 business and personal networks - but also the
apparent laxity of users about Wi-Fi's
built-in
security... read
more
Windows XP Spills the Beans on
Wireless Access Points
(ExtremeTech - December 11, 2002)
Now that "war
driving" -- searching for wireless LANs -- has become a
popular pastime, many Internet service providers and
businesses have begun to hide their Wi-Fi access points by
preventing them from advertising an SSID (service set
identifier). If this is done, only systems that know the
access point's SSID can log onto the network. Unfortunately,
the Wi-Fi software that's built into every copy of Windows XP
"spills the beans" on access points' hidden SSIDs ...
read more
Feds
Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool
(Wired
News - December 06, 2002)
Attention, Wi-Fi users: The
Department of Homeland Security sees wireless networking
technology as a terrorist threat. That was the message from
experts who participated in working groups under federal
cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke and shared what they learned
at this week's 802.11 Planet conference. Wi-Fi manufacturers,
as well as home and office users, face a clear choice, they
said: Secure yourselves or be regulated... read
more
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