How safe is your wireless?
I’ve been using this program called wireless key view. When run, it goes through your computer and checks for all the wireless networks you have connected to with your computer and displays them in a nice order for you.
The actual file that is used (wirelesskeyview) is about 32 kb’s in size, so its not big at all and takes seconds to load up. For me, its great. When the people don’t know what their wireless passwords are, I can simply get it off of another computer. Really easy and simple.
Security Wise, its not safe at all. Windows keeps a record of all your wireless networks you have connected to, this program goes and fetches that information and displays it.
I need about 60 seconds to be able to get the wireless key, no matter what encryption, from your computer. I physically need access to the computer, and off I go. You’ll never notice I was there.
So to sum things up. If you are really concerned about wireless security, check with your technician what you can do to make it more secure.
I would recommend a 24bit WEP encryption with Mac address filtering.
What is Mac address Filtering? (more on that later)
So there you go. If you thought you were safe on your wireless network, think again.
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