OK.... so I was in the car with my brother dropping him off by his apartment and he wanted to see how something worked on my laptop. I booted up and immediately it pops up that a Wireless Connection is available. Curious by nature, I of course clicked to see if it was encrypted, but surprisingly it was wide open. I of course connected and started poking around and did some quick port scans. It took me approx. a minute and a half to be sitting on someones C drive with Admin access to their entire machine.
So the question is what is it going to take before people start taking security seriously. People are quick to say Microsoft is not making secure systems and is responsible for all of the viruses and vulnerabilities. This may be partially true but I think part of the blame needs to go to the user as well. Would you leave your front door wide open for anyone to come right in? - of course not! So why do people leave their computer equipment sitting out there for anyone to poke around in? Is it ignorance, lack of technical know how, or just plain stupidity? I just don't get it.
Posted by ravomess at February 18, 2004 12:24 AMConfiguring WEP is simple; All wireless routers should have wizards for dumb-users to configure WEP and change the network name.
Posted by: Greg at February 18, 2004 09:41 AMso, did you send lots of crazy viruses to his network and mess up his hard drive? that should fit well with your plans to take over the world.
Posted by: Devorah at February 18, 2004 01:42 PMIf you did, don't admit it here!
Posted by: d0ughb0y35 at February 18, 2004 02:44 PMCan you do that to my computer too??
Posted by: Raffy at February 18, 2004 07:43 PMdoes Raffy want u to check his security or send him nasty viruses to f-up his HD
Posted by: Devorah at February 22, 2004 09:14 PM"f-up"??
Vo! Language!!
just glad i'm on macintosh...
Posted by: rob at February 23, 2004 02:55 PMRob, unfortunately for this a Mac wouldn't help - until people ingeneral realize how vulnerable networks are and that there is a need to lock down the borders all computers, even Macs, are vulnerable to attack.
Posted by: ravomess at February 24, 2004 12:40 AM