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Interviews with Wi-Fi users at airports and coffee shops reveal grande security problems Product Test Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Infoblox Take Control of Network TCO by Automating IPAM Growing networks are in a vicious circle of rising costs, increasing downtime, and rising staff stress. Join Enterprise Strategy Group's Jon Oltsik, for this information-packed webinar on how enterprises can reduce stress and operational expenses by automating IPAM, listen today. Spotlight Story Wi-Fi hot spot horrors By James E. Gaskin Laptops are the main business tool for most mobile workers, and connecting those devices to the Internet via free public Wi-Fi hotspots has become common practice. So how well do your mobile workers follow security guidelines for safe mobile computing? Read full story Related News: Slideshow: Top 10 hot spot safety tips How to protect laptop data at your local Wi-Fi hot spot. Podcast: Hot Spot Horror Stories Keith Shaw talks with author James Gaskin about his recent experiment talking with mobile workers about their laptop security usage at various hot spots around the country. Find out why most users get a not-so-good grade at protecting their data and their physical devices. Plus, we offer up tips on how to protect your data and notebook while traveling. (15:44) Tools that find Wi-Fi hotspots While any Wi-Fi discovery tool can find a hotspot, some network operators also provide connection managers for their Wi-Fi services mainly for the purpose of easily integrating account information. Making the Wi-Fi connection Wi-Fi discovery and connection tools have existed since the early days of 802.11. But while many of these tools have their roots in hacker tools like AirCrack, WEPCrack, AirSnort, CoWPatty, and AirSnarf, which were all originally developed to exploit the fundamental weakness in Wired Equivalent Privacy, these tools now legitimately embody the client-side user interface elements that help establish essentially every wireless LAN link. Wi-Fi analysis tools This week Gibbs reviews a really good Wi-Fi hot spot locator; looks at an update to Wi-Spy, the Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer that he previously reviewed; and raves about VisiWave, a Wi-Fi site-analysis tool. Wi-Fi wants to be free, but not all businesses agree There's been an explosion in growth of Wi-Fi hotspots during the last several years. Best-guess estimates range from 33,000 WLAN hotspots worldwide to more than 250,000 at present. (That's mainly because service ... Betting on SuperNAP In Las Vegas, data center takes power and cooling to the limit. 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