Compiled statistics from wardriving in Stockholm, Sweden October 2013. Data based on 10.000 acces points.

1. Wi-fi WarDriving
Location:
Time:
Stockholm
2013-10

2. Background
Area:
Central Stockholm, Sweden
Collection period:
October 2013
Discovering:
10.343 wi-fi accesspoints…

3. Situation
• 84% of access points secured
• 16% of access points are
open

4. Secured
• 21% of secured networks allow Wireless
Protected Setup (and WPS
vulnerabilities)
• 40% are well secured
Secured using
Secured with WPS
52%
• 60% could improve
40%
33%
25%
12%
11%
12%
8%
3%
0%
WEP
1%
WPA
Blue is with WPS
3%
WPA/WPA2
WPA2
WEP
WPA
WPA/WPA2
Regardless of WPS
WPA2

5. Open networks
• Why are they open? Intended
or not?
• Name contains
“guest”, “free”, “open” or
“café” indicates intended to
be open.
• Name contains first
name, print server, TV or
default SSID from router
manufacturer indicates
misconfiguration.
• At least 11% of all open
networks are open by mistake
Open - intention
Misconfig
11%
Unknown
26%
OK
63%

6. Largest group of open networks
assumed due to misconfiguration

7. This printer broadcasts open access

8. Final summary
• 16% of the networks are open
• 11% (63% or all open) are open on intention
• 5% of all networks might be open unintentionally
• (11% of all open are open unintentionally)
• 84% of networks are secured
• 34% (40% of secured) are well secured
• 50% (60% of secured ) should secure further

9. Appendix:
Top 25 network card manufactorers
Shenzhen Ubiquiti
Huawei Networks
1%
1%
XAVi
Technologies
1%
Belkin
1%
[Other]
14%
Cisco Systems
23%
Dovado FZ-LLC
Inteno Broadband
Technology 1%
AB
1%
Motorola
ProCurve
1%
Networking
TP-Link
1%
1%
Cisco-Linksys
2%
Pegatron
2%
Thomson Telecom
2%
Netgear
15%
ZyXEL
2%
Huawei Technologies
2% Technicolor
2%
Ruckus Wireless
3%
AsusTek
4%
Aruba Networks
4%
Hewlett
Packard
5%
D-Link
6%
Apple Inc
5%