What type of company......

[tm37]

I Turned on my laptop to do some work and now I am connected to a wireless netowrk.

We have none here at my offcie so it must be the guys next door.

How cheap can places be?

 

[Doboji]

Well people are generally.... absolute... fvcking.... morons....

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Doboji
Well people are generally.... absolute... fvcking.... morons....

qft

 

[tm37]

Well at least my network places will nt let me view the network.

That is a plus I suppose

 

[gshock888]

some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

 

[ironcrotch]

Here in Portland there are open wireless spots all over the city. It's called free wireless.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Here in Portland there are open wireless spots all over the city. It's called free wireless.

That would rock

No RIAA or MPAA letters to worry about

 

[Modeps]

maybe they like giving wardrivers something to map?

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

If you can not access the EMR then they ae fine

HIPAA relates to the software not the network!

 

[JulesMaximus]

One with an inept IT department.

 

[FoBoT]

many small companies think decent IT guys cost too much money, so they get whichever current employee knows the most about AOL 9.0 Optimized to play IT guy, so he/she goes to Best Buy and picks up a wireless router and plugs it up, etc. there you go.

some business people see no value to hiring competent IT people

 

[labgeek]

Originally posted by: tm37

If you can not access the EMR then they ae fine

HIPAA relates to the software not the network!

I was part of the Technology Safeguards Committee (ie HIPAA compliance) for a large hospital/clinic system in Louisiana... HIPAA covers policies and procedures to maintain data integrity and security - that includes network security.


Edit -

Physical safeguards are physical measures, policies, and procedures to protect a covered
entity's electronic information systems and related buildings and equipment, from natural
and environmental hazards, and unauthorized intrusion.

Security or Security measures encompass all of the administrative, physical, and technical
safeguards in an information system.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

If you can not access the EMR then they ae fine

HIPAA relates to the software not the network!

nope, it covers the network, the latest revision of HIPAA, April of this year.

besides, even without network security, if you have any Word/Excel files regarding patients in your shared files, they are covered by HIPAA.

besides, what kind of moron wants to meet minimum security requirements, especially when you are a doctors office and you have all the necessary data for Identity thieves to go crazy on.

 

[tm37]

The nice thing is that I do not need to run wire to do this install

However the connection is slow and that sucks

Getting 60Kb/s from asus

 

[Drakkon]

i work next door to a mortgage company...i've told them a few times i can get on their network, see their comps, etc...they do nothing about it. All someone has to do is pull up, and they'd have access to a ton of financial records and information, but do these people care? no...

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

If you can not access the EMR then they ae fine

HIPAA relates to the software not the network!

nope, it covers the network, the latest revision of HIPAA, April of this year.

besides, even without network security, if you have any Word/Excel files regarding patients in your shared files, they are covered by HIPAA.

besides, what kind of moron wants to meet minimum security requirements, especially when you are a doctors office and you have all the necessary data for Identity thieves to go crazy on.

Well when I was working with that stuff (from the medical side) the protection was in the EMR and and the network. However much like OSHA you will not get checked out untill there is a breach The big hospitals are not really the big issue it is the smaller clinic and private practice that has me concerned

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

If you can not access the EMR then they ae fine

HIPAA relates to the software not the network!

nope, it covers the network, the latest revision of HIPAA, April of this year.

besides, even without network security, if you have any Word/Excel files regarding patients in your shared files, they are covered by HIPAA.

besides, what kind of moron wants to meet minimum security requirements, especially when you are a doctors office and you have all the necessary data for Identity thieves to go crazy on.

Well when I was working with that stuff (from the medical side) the protection was in the EMR and and the network. However much like OSHA you will not get checked out untill there is a breach The big hospitals are not really the big issue it is the smaller clinic and private practice that has me concerned

yup, they tried to tighten things up a bit this year with the april deadline. i think it was the 3rd phase of the hipaa requirements.

 

[tm37]

Well that is good to know and seeing as I am in the Medical world again I need to brush up on it.

 

[gshock888]

well, are they stupid enough to give the SSID their company name? lol

 

[revnja]

you'd be surprised how many big, prominent businesses leave their networks wide open. i've done many, many audits here in my town and the results are absolutely shocking. a lot of data and privacy at risk. the thing that gets me is that people don't seem to care. at least they won't care until something terrible happens or a lawsuit is filed.

 

[wiredspider]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: gshock888
some companies might have unsecured wireless access for guests

They have very little walk in traffic

i'm at a doctors office and the office next door has wireless wide open. i can access Network Neighborhood and i can install their printers to my laptop.

have they not heard of HIPAA yet?

Haha, print something out like HELP! I'm stuck inside the printer!!!

 

[Syrch]

yup, thats what we do here. of course they have zero access to our network, just internet access.

 

[daniel1113]

We have both at my office... the main wireless network, which extends throughout the building, is secured. However, we have two small hotspots in conference rooms that are completely open so that visitors can use the internet. However, the unsecure channels are not connected to the rest of the network, and they are burried deep inside the building, so the chance of anyone on the outside gaining access is about zero.