More than half of the security experts at a conference for security experts have insecure WiFi settings

According to AirDefense the majority of the computers used by security experts who were at the RSA conference in San Francisco in February this year didn’t have the appropriate security protection.

The wireless traffic was scanned by AirDefense on the first day of the conference and found a total of 623 Wi-Fi enabled notebooks and mobile phones. 56% of those devices were configured automatically to log-on to networks with default names such as 'Linksys' or 'T-Mobile'.

Furthermore and according to vnunet.com “attackers could exploit the feature through a so-called man-in-the-middle attack in which a rogue access point is set up with a Service Set Identifier that is identical to the common service.”


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