[MLB-WIRELESS] Security alert: Sydney awash with vulnerable wireless LANs

[Barry Park]

Dumb headline of the week.
- Barry

Security alert: Sydney awash with vulnerable wireless LANs
By Jeanne-Vida Douglas, ZDNet Australia
05 June 2002
With IDC quoting approximately 60,000 wireless LANs in Australia, unwary
businesses -- including a leading international bank -- are leaving
themselves wide open to hack attacks.
ZDNet Australia recently discovered the extent of the threat on a wardriving
mission with Jason Edelstein, principal consultant for IT consultancy Sense
of Security.
Having demonstrated the ease with which wireless LANs are detected through a
technique known as wardriving, Edelstein pointed out that many companies
were putting themselves at risk unnecessarily, by failing to take simple
measures to prevent wireless hackers from gaining access to their data.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20265780,00.htm



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