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Our new Cable DSL offering to the village of Loganville is planned for June 1, 2016.  We will be posting more details here as we get closer to turning up our new services and bandwidth offerings.

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WIConnect Wireless, LLC is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Wisconsin Broadband Expansion Project in the amount of $35,469. This grant will be used to expand our High Speed internet services to underserved areas of Iowa, Grant and Richland Counties. We will be working with local land owners, business owners, and communities to expand our internet services to these underserved rural communities. We worked with the Prosperity Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development and Computer Connections of WI, Inc. to build the current plan of expansion.   If you are a land owner with a tall structure including silos, grain silos, any tower structures, or tall buildings, please contact us to find out how you may help us in the expansion and receive free or discounted internet for your home or business.

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WIConnect Wireless LLC is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Wisconsin Broadband Expansion Project in the amount of $35,469. This grant will be used to expand our High Speed internet services to underserved areas of Iowa, Grant and Richland Counties. We will be working with local land owners, business owners, and communities to expand our internet services to these underserved rural communities. We worked with the Prosperity Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development and Computer Connections of WI Inc to build the current plan of expansion.   If you are a Land owner with a tall structure including a Silo, Grain Silo, Tower Structure, or tall building please contact us to find out how you may help us in the expansion and receive free or discounted internet for your home or business.

More info on our Supporting Partners

www.ccwis.com

www.prosperitysouthwest.com

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By now, many of you have likely heard of the HeartBleed Bug.  The severity of this kind of breech has been described as an 11 on a scale of 1 – 10.  Why is it so severe?  You can read the official introductory text below:

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).

The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.

In Layman’s terms, it basically means that during the last two years, “Security” has been virtually non-existant, since governments or hackers could easily decrypt your private communications after retreiving the private key from the server.  Did this happen?  No one knows yet.  To be on the safe side, the security community has pushed out patches, and is informing everyone of the evolving events.

Was WIConnect Affected?

First of all, a little technical overview of our network: all of our incoming traffic is passing through a Linux perimeter firewall/gateway, then getting routed and NATed (NAT stands for Network Address Translation) to your particular radio device, which then NATs the traffic to your LAN. (Local Area Network)  Any traffic that does end up hitting your machine is already completely filtered.  Even so, if we allowed unfiltered inbound traffic, it is likely that you would be unaffected, since this ‘bug’ only targets the OpenSSL libraries which serve to secure your data that is being transmitted to and from a ‘listening’ web service.  Those OpenSSL libraries are more likely to be on the remote server that you would be connecting to; unless you are hosting your own secure services that are accessible from the Internet within your LAN.

Much more concerning, is the possibility of data breaches on your accounts that are publicly hosted on mainstream services such as Google / Yahoo’s servers, etc.  Since the severity of the bug lies in the fact that the OpenSSL libraries release random contents of a server’s RAM, (Random Access Memory) an attacker can decrypt the secure keys of that service, and then use those keys to listen in on your private information as it travels to and from that machine.

What is Next?

WIConnect Wireless is committed to your privacy.  We are still in the process of doing an in-depth security audit of our network, and have concluded the following so far:

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WIConnect is announcing an upgrade to our mail server.  With a new theme for more streamlined webmail access, and more advanced features for our business clients, we are happy to announce this update.  The process should be seamless for most of our users, but as always, please let us know if you have any issues or questions.

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