ECA
03-12-2005, 09:50 AM
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1066655,00.html
In each city, researchers found thousands of business wireless access points that were either unsecured or displayed default manufacturers' values -- often the least secure configurations for wireless routers. In New York, for example, as many as 38.4% of the hundreds of wireless business networks surveyed were part of unsecured business WLANs.
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The annual survey included New York and San Francisco for the first time, both of which were found to match and at times exceed the number of unprotected networks in the European cities. The survey also noted the popularity of public access points, called hotspots, which many hotels and restaurants offer their guests free-of-charge, or for a daily fee. (In San Francisco, 11.5% of the access points surveyed were hotspots, a figure similar to the number found in London.)
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In each city, researchers found thousands of business wireless access points that were either unsecured or displayed default manufacturers' values -- often the least secure configurations for wireless routers. In New York, for example, as many as 38.4% of the hundreds of wireless business networks surveyed were part of unsecured business WLANs.
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The annual survey included New York and San Francisco for the first time, both of which were found to match and at times exceed the number of unprotected networks in the European cities. The survey also noted the popularity of public access points, called hotspots, which many hotels and restaurants offer their guests free-of-charge, or for a daily fee. (In San Francisco, 11.5% of the access points surveyed were hotspots, a figure similar to the number found in London.)
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