Research Article
Overview of Romania 802.11Wireless Security & Statistics
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.28-12-2017.153518, author={Cristian Liviu Leca}, title={Overview of Romania 802.11Wireless Security \& Statistics}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety}, volume={4}, number={12}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={SESA}, year={2017}, month={12}, keywords={wireless security, vulnerabilities, Romania, war-driving}, doi={10.4108/eai.28-12-2017.153518} }- Cristian Liviu Leca
Year: 2017
Overview of Romania 802.11Wireless Security & Statistics
SESA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-12-2017.153518
Abstract
This paper presents a study of wireless network security and statistics in Romania aimed at raising public awareness on security issues and highlighting the prevalence of known vulnerabilities in commercial equipment. The data used for the study consist of wireless network broadcast data acquisitioned by the technique of war-driving. In order to ensure a thorough overview, the data collected includes more than 100000 unique wireless networks gathered in Bucharest, major urban areas and the surrounding rural areas. The results of the study cover security protocol usage, the percentage in which known vulnerabilities are still deployed in wireless networks and statistics regarding channel and band usage, common SSIDs in Romania, top equipment manufacturers and the situation of provider wireless access points. The study also shows that provider wireless access points on average o er better security than private networks.
Copyright © 2017 Cristian Liviu Leca, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.
