Wireless War Driving.

Well all this week I’ve been dedicating my time to checking out all about war driving so I could find out how dangerous wireless could be.

The first thing I did was check out common war driving sites to find the easiest way such as already made databases which was shocking to me the amount of unsecured networks I found a database on Wigle using the Jigle desktop tool it has thousands of access points on it.

Anyone can do something similar too this which is very scary I found a couple of peoples access points on it (which where not secure) which is just advertising your AP so hackers can come and steal your information.

Now its bad enough being on the map but what can you do to stop people hacking you?

Simple use WPA encryption, WEP encryption can now be cracked in a matter of seconds so DON’T use it, or even better you could use WPA2 these encryptions are brilliant and worth wile spending money on a new AP just to get the encryption. Please check out WPA encryption.

This week I shall dedicate my posts too wireless security, hopefully that you all will understand the problems with this technology and if your using it the best ways of securing it!