[BLOG] World Cup security centre scores own goal as Wi-Fi Password appears in newspaper picture

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D'oh! Someone should tell people responsible for security in major sporting venues that effective security begins at home. Just four months after the US Super Bowl scrambled to change its wireless credentials after CBS broadcast video which captured an SSID and password, now Brazil have performed a similar bungle with the World Cup security centre's WiFi credentials.



Local news outlet Correio Braziliense received permission to attend the security centre in order to take a picture of head of international cooperation, Luiz Cravo Dorea, standing in the multi-million dollar security centre, to be included in an article later published by the paper. The centre is used to watch video feeds from surveillance cameras around the event's venues. Unfortunately the picture revealed more than the operating firm, Risco of Israel, bargained for. In the background of the pic, an interactive whiteboard gives details of the system; and on the quadrant closest to the camera; it is possible to read the SSID "WORLD CUP" and password "b5a2112014", leet speak for Brazil 2014.



The picture subsequently hit Twitter, where it received over 2,300 retweets. So that's everyone who still supports England after our disastrous World Cup performance this year, then...