Re: WARning

OK ... is Eavesdrop someting new ???
I personally like to keep ahead of the "Crackers"
I run a wi-fi backbone link and a Boingo Hotspot

Thank's


Franklin S Werren, www.bagpipes.net
                               www.chautauqualake.net

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Them Worm, Them Worms, Them Dirty Worms....
Them Worm, Them Worms, Them Dirty Worms....
Them Worm, Them Worms, Them Dirty Worms....
That is the way of the Worm........


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Irvine" <[email protected]>
To: "SeattleWireless Talk List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:15 AM
Subject: WARning


>I was recently out wardriving during a lunch break at work, to see if
> Eavesdrop would pick up anything.  It didn't, so I tried to connect to
> a couple of the networks to see.  I noticed some netbios traffic.  I
> figured what the heck and decided to try and connect.  The system
> asked for a username and password, which I expected.  Not figuring it
> would work, I typed in "administrator" for the username, and left the
> password blank. lo and behold it worked!!!  I left a message on the
> system for the owner to fix it, and telling them how the message got
> on there.  I didn't browse around anywhere else, just left the
> message.
> 
> Just for kicks, and to see the extent of the problem, I repeated this
> over and over for over an hour.  I was able to successfully mount
> about a dozen drives (only 2 systems all day didn't let me in using
> administrator/no password).  I left messages on them all.
> 
> One particularly scary system was a local dentist office that has it's
> entire patient database shared out!!
> 
> Whoa!  I think a lot of people have a false sense of security because
> the marketing departments push these things as having a built-in
> firewall.  Of course they don't warn people that anyone connected to
> their wireless router will ahve access to everything as if it
> wasplugged in.
> 
> 
> Scary scary stuff.  I've nicknamed this process of putting messages on
> these machines WARning.
> 
> 
> --Bryan
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