Warchalking on the way to work

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:39 PM by hwaldron

This is a brief and interesting analysis by one of Kaspersky's analysts in Moscow.  It illustrates the awareness that's still needed for wireless security protection.

Kaspersky Labs Blog - Please see JAN 16th entry
http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?calendar=2007-01

QUOTE: I live pretty close to the office, and my commute only takes about ten minutes - even in that time I was able to collect a fair bit of data which is shown in the picture below.  Overall, I detected 40 Wifi networks: the totally unprotected networks are marked with a red dot, those with WEP enabled are marked with a yellow dot, and those with WPA are marked with a green dot.

Findings on the way to work
http://images.kaspersky.com/en/pictures/vlweblog-208187308.png

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