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Major Wireless Breaches Identified in Downtown Networks

Calendar Sep 12, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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A local consulting firm launched a controversial Web site yesterday that shows gaping security holes in hundreds of wireless networks throughout the downtown core, including many in the financial district and some government and university areas. . . . A local consulting firm launched a controversial Web site yesterday that shows gaping security holes in hundreds of wireless networks throughout the downtown core, including many in the financial district and some government and university areas.

The consulting firm, irreverently called IpEverywhere, says about 75 per cent of the more than 1,000 downtown wireless networks it has detected so far have no evidence of security and leave organizations wide open to information theft, data destruction, networking spamming and other cyber attacks.

The company plotted its findings on a map found at , which went live on the Internet yesterday afternoon. The map marks vulnerable networks with red pins, while black triangles indicate networks protected with WEP -- "wireless equivalent privacy" -- encryption.

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