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Unencrypted WiFi May Expose Social Networking
Posted October 31, 2010 by Evan Youngblood, CEO
A security team has devised a way to easily access user's private sessions for popular social networking web sites, such as Facebook, when the user is on an unencrypted WiFi network.
What To Do
Megabytes recommends that any unencrypted WiFi network immediately be setup with WPA or WPA2 encryption. Even if the network is for public use, and the password is publicly known, encrypting the wireless network will block the exploit.
This includes wifi tethering on smartphones such as the Motorola Droid X. By default the WiFi tethering feature uses an unencrypted network. Megabytes recommends activating WPA or WPA2 encryption with a simple password to avoid this exploit and protect your tethering account from unauthorized use.
Megabytes offers complete networking services including network encryption and training. Contact Megabytes to schedule an evaluation of your network to make sure you and everyone else on your network is safe.
