Is Your Wi-Fi Network Listed on the Web?

Interested statistics from www.wigle.net where Wi-Fi hackers and and war drivers that capture Wi-Fi network knowledge and post to the Web:

Total number of networks found: over 11,280,000

Percent of networks protected with WEP: 44.0%

Percent of networks not protected (without WEP): 40.5%

Percent of networks unknown: 15.4%

Pretty scary thought - somewhere within 40% and 56% of all Wi-Fi networks have no

Wi-Fi defense.

wigle.net is an interesting site. It’s worth checking out to see whether your network is on the hacker’s radar screen. They have a great interactive map that allows you to type in your physical address and zoom into all of the networks (open and secured) that have been found by war drivers in your neighborhood.

Is your unsecured network listed on the Web for everyone to see?