[MLB-WIRELESS] Networks suffer from wireless insecurity

[Barry Park]

   Title: Networks suffer from wireless insecurity
   Source:   ZDNet News
   Date Written:  February 5, 2003
   Date Collected: February 5, 2003
"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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