Smart WiFi Security
Posted Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 12:15 pm by Miguel Paraz
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John Paul Alcala posts about a potential thread for Smart WiFi users.
Different Smart WiFi subscribers in an area are in a single shared LAN, like PCs connecting to a repeater hub. Thus as John Paul points out, you can access shared folders on the other PCs, or do worse.
Personally, I’ve tried “wardriving” programs on a laptop. They detect Smart WiFi access points. “Wardriving” is driving around, looking for open WiFi hotspots. This was a few months ago, and at that time, Smart WiFi was not encrypted at all. I could see the data being sent to the subscriber nodes. I recall seeing web, Chikka messenger, and Yahoo messenger traffic.
I did that while on a laptop, connected for a short time. What more if you’re connected fulltime to Smart WiFi?
One solution is to not connect the PC directly to the Smart WiFi equipment. Instead, connect a router so that your PCs inside will have their own private network separated through Network Address Translation (NAT).
Smart should educate their subscribers, or better yet, fix the system to avoid these problems (on top of the other well-publicized problems).
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INQ7 covers the story, with some commentary from a Smart WiFi “technical staffer” and the head of the Honeynet Project.
[...] The telecommunications sector has been bombarded with customer complaints on security lately. There is this issue about Smart Wifi and other Cable DSL services being insecure in the last mine. Now, there is this Inq7 article that describes another spin on the story of Telco security. “A lot of telecommunications companies don’t take responsibility when it comes to security. That is unless you’re using their managed services, which is costly,” said Ken Liow, senior manager of security of 3Com’s enterprise marketing in Asia Pacific, in an interview with local reporters. [...]
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