Public Access 'Blackspots'

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 25, 2003 @03:36AM from the look-ma-no-wires dept.

WeakGeek writes "Unstrung has a story talking about a security issue with the combining of 802.11 and GSM/GPRS networks. Seems that 802.11b hotspots provide hackers with an easy way to grab user information from the wide-area network itself. Back when GSM was being defined, standards were designed to only authenticate the details held on the SIM card in a user's device before starting a session on the network. The user's device doesn't in turn check the credentials of the network. Fake a network, get data. Of course, the linked to story seems to be a 'viral' advertisement for a product that fixes this, but I still thought it interesting enough to share."

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Tired of the wirless security fud by codepunk · 2003-02-25 04:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I am constantly being asked if wireless networks are secure.

Customer: Is this wireless networking secure?
Me: What Operating System are you running?
Customer: Windows Xpeee
Me: It doesn't matter you will never be secure.!

It is a matter of choice it can be as secure as you wish it to be. If you really think you need security tunnel through ssl..

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