Comments on: UK ISP Attacks “3-Strikes” with Proof Wi-Fi Piggybacking Easy

By: UK SURVEY: 40% Don’t Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings | Wi-Fi.Me

UK SURVEY: 40% Don’t Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings | Wi-Fi.Me — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:47:01 +0000

[...] late 2009 UK ISP Talk Talk conducted a physical Wi-Fi survey in central Ealing in West London and found that 41% of 1,083 Wi-Fi networks were vulnerable to [...]

By: UK SURVEY: 40% Don’t Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings

UK SURVEY: 40% Don’t Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:26:35 +0000

[...] late 2009 UK ISP Talk Talk conducted a physical Wi-Fi survey in central Ealing in West London and found that 41% of 1,083 Wi-Fi networks were vulnerable to [...]

By: UK SURVEY: 40% Don't Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings

UK SURVEY: 40% Don't Understand Wi-Fi Security Settings — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:42:05 +0000

[...] they are doing enough to ensure their wireless networks are secure.”In late 2009 UK ISP Talk Talk conducted a physical Wi-Fi survey in central Ealing in West London and found that 41% of 1,083 Wi-Fi networks were vulnerable to [...]

By: SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi | Inform Your children

SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi | Inform Your children — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:11:24 +0000

[...] accurately identifies the person responsible for an online crime.Back in 2009 UK ISP Talk Talk sent a team of its Internet security experts out to The Highway, a residential road in Stanmore, Middlesex, and [...]

By: SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi.Me

SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi.Me — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:17:38 +0000

[...] in 2009 UK ISP Talk Talk sent a team of its Internet security experts out to The Highway, a residential road in Stanmore, Middlesex, and [...]

By: SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi » ZeroPaid.com

SURVEY: 32% of Americans Have Tried to Steal Wi-Fi » ZeroPaid.com — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:34:18 +0000

By: FH

FH — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:42:14 +0000

I use a long WPA2 password. Entering that into an iPod Touch was almost impossible to get right. The on-screen keyboard, immediate hiding of the keystrokes and lack of cut and paste conspired to make it so. I persevered, but who else will do that and not simplify the password instead?

By: “3-Strikes,” Website Filtering, Ban on Public Wi-Fi to Become Law in UK

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:16:19 +0000

[...] that portion, among others, warning of a costly equipment upgrade by Internet users to prevent Wi-Fi piggybacking which it says as much as 41% in some areas are [...]

By: STUDY: Almost 65,000 Irish Suspected of Weekly Illegal P2P

STUDY: Almost 65,000 Irish Suspected of Weekly Illegal P2P — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:42:44 +0000

[...] address and not the actual person responsible. It’s already been shown that people can easily hijack a person’s Wi-Fi connection and that a inanimate objects like printers can also be [...]

By: Scary Devil Monastery

Scary Devil Monastery — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:35:27 +0000

Given that an ordinary security diagnostics suite like BackTrack 4 will make short work of the security-through-obscurity approach and the general difficulty in securing a network which broadcasts it’s access point openly, the only REAL approach to wireless security is to use a password of 20+ letters with high entropy or (better) an actual file key.

But to set up and maintain such a system isn’t going to be the norm for a few years yet and will leave the “average (L)user” even more bewildered.

If you want security worth the name, most wireless out-of-the-box solutions are useless against an adversary booting a dual-core laptop of moderate processing capability with BackTrack.

Or in the words of Bruce Schneier – “When people ask me ‘What can the average user do to improve his computer security’ I say ‘Nothing, you’re fucked’”…