UK Wireless Networks Unsecured
Posted: 26th May, 2006 By: MarkJ
New research from Anti-Virus firm Kaspersky has found that 49% of UK wireless networks in London are open to attack:
Tests in the business district in London's Canary Wharf found the area marginally safer, although 40 per cent of wireless networks were still unencrypted.
Kaspersky's research was carried out between 25 and 28 April 2006 in various areas of London, and at the Infosec security conference, with data collected from more than 600 Wi-Fi access points.
"You would expect a major business site and a security exhibition to be particularly security conscious, so the level of vulnerability at both of these sites is surprising," said Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
*roll eyes*. More @ VNUNet.
Tests in the business district in London's Canary Wharf found the area marginally safer, although 40 per cent of wireless networks were still unencrypted.
Kaspersky's research was carried out between 25 and 28 April 2006 in various areas of London, and at the Infosec security conference, with data collected from more than 600 Wi-Fi access points.
"You would expect a major business site and a security exhibition to be particularly security conscious, so the level of vulnerability at both of these sites is surprising," said Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab.
*roll eyes*. More @ VNUNet.
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