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More than 20% of Wi-Fi networks in 2018 cities are insecure

The security company analyzed public Wi-Fi network access points in 11 host cities: Saransk, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Volgograd, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Sochi, Rostov, Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg.The results show that of the 32,000 Wi-Fi networks in the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, about 7,000 do not have encryption and authentication algorithms, which are essential for the security of Wi-Fi networks."The lack of traffic encryption coupled with the celebration of large events, such as the 2018 FIFA World Cup, makes wireless Wi-Fi networks an obvious target for hackers looking for easy access to user data, "said Denis Legezo, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.The three cities with the highest percentage of unreliable Wi-Fi networks are St. Petersburg (37%), Kaliningrad (35%) and Rostov (32%), while cities Saransk (10%) and Samara (17%) places.The report also indicates that while only two-thirds of all host cities access points use the WPA / WPA2 access protocol family, these points can not be considered completely secure if their password is accessible to all.



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