Wireless fail

[Nerm]

This is an example of why you don't let cousin "Bob" who "owns a local mom/pop computer store" design and implement your wireless infrastructure. Can you guess their problem areas from the image? lol

*Note: wall dimensions are not exact just a quick representation of what I walked into yesterday.

[deanwebb]

I lol'd. All the people in the building on the left are going to be crowded up next to that wall, there.

Our building heatmaps are quite the opposite... basically, we're going to all DIE if wireless radio frequencies can cause cancer or something nasty like that. We've got so much wireless coverage, you can cut it with a knife. And why? We plan to go 100% over to wireless one day...

[routerdork]

I actually have to go out and do a site survey next week. We hired a company to come in and do it. Location is saying things are worse than before.

[fortworthtechs]

Check out the routers as they typically offer two common forms of security: WEP, and Wi-Fi protected Access (WAP) encryption. Both are easy to enable you will get maximum protection from the WPA.   

[hizzo3]

Ugh small business. I get upset every time I scan for WiFi and I find WPS or WEP. Didn't the credit card industry ban those if you want to run cards? If it wasn't illegal, I'd blackmail everyone of those business by hacking their network, sniffing some of the traffic, and show them... Then charge them a reasonable fee to fix it. Only if....

Then again homeowners aren't in the clear. My gf let Time Warner set up her router and do security on it. They left the WPS on it... I figured it was a netgear so it would have the brute force fix on it... Nope... 30 mins later... I was in. Oh and the passphrase was her phone number.

[deanwebb]

Then again homeowners aren't in the clear. My gf let Time Warner set up her router and do security on it. They left the WPS on it... I figured it was a netgear so it would have the brute force fix on it... Nope... 30 mins later... I was in. Oh and the passphrase was her phone number.

[Nerm]

Ugh small business. I get upset every time I scan for WiFi and I find WPS or WEP. Didn't the credit card industry ban those if you want to run cards?

Yes, violates compliance with PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, and probably more.

[wintermute000]

I just finished a job @ a health care related org (not small biccies... 10 sites, ~100 network devices) who were running pre-shared key across their entire wireless fleet.

The only defence is that it was WPA2 but still.... (and yes, TKIP lol).... so I guess they bought a WLC because its easier to change the password in one place? (not that the PW had been changed since the WLC got installed).

[Nerm]

 

[deanwebb]

QFT.