Sunday, August 19, 2001

Wireless security vulnerabilities Sitting in the Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital, AT&T Labs' Avi Rubin (a note from Avi on WEP insecurity is in RISKS-21.57) noticed that his laptop wireless connection card was blinking, and then discovered that the hospital's wireless network was open to his laptop, using 802.11b (Wi-Fi) and automatically granting him access. [Source: As Wireless Networks Grow, So Do Security Fears, by John Schwartz Sunday Business Section of *The New York Times*, page 10, 19 Aug 2001 (National edition), PGN-ed; full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/technology/19WIRE.html] [Another case of *not* having to exceed authority because there was no security involved! Sloppy hospital? Insecurity by obscurity? PGN] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 62] 0:00 # G!