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Re: RE: About War Driving ..
From: "Francois Yang" <francois.y () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:54:22 -0600
I agree with most of everyone here. Use wpa2 for encryption. Wpa is still susceptible to a dictionary attack. as far as catching the guy or girl right handed. the chances of it are slim unless you spend alot of money on equipment and software or they screw up. instead, you should setup a sniffer and try to capture as much traffic as you can and review the traffic at a later time. The traffic, may reveal what sites he/she likes to go to. if they have a server or webpage at home or somewhere that they always access after getting online. I've seen where someone would hack a server, then call home, and when you go to their home page, it displays their real name or nick name. Then you can google for that name and you usually find something good.....also as someone else mentioned. it could be someone bringing in their personal laptop. You should try to locate, the offending MAC address and associated IP address. if you can't log everything from the wireless AP. Then look thru the log or captured traffic for that address. If you get a computer name. You might be able to find the same computer name on your wired network. if this happens, then you can nail the person. There are many different options here beside the one about changing encryption. Without knowing your network, we can only offer so much. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by: ByteCrusher Detect Malicious Web Content and Exploits in Real-Time. Anti-Virus engines can't detect unknown or new threats. LinkScanner can. Web surfing just became a whole lot safer. http://www.explabs.com/staging/promotions/xern_lspro.asp?loc=sfmaildetect ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: About War Driving .. kjpang_nospam (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. joetech691 (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Colin Copley (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Larry Offley (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Gouki (Dec 04)
- Re: About War Driving .. bucklerk (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Roman Shirokov (Dec 01)
- Re: About War Driving .. Francois Yang (Dec 04)
- Re: Re: About War Driving .. s (Dec 04)
- Re: RE: About War Driving .. nratkevicius (Dec 04)
- Re: RE: About War Driving .. Francois Yang (Dec 06)
- RE: About War Driving .. David Gillett (Dec 06)
- Re: About War Driving .. Paul daSilva (Dec 04)
- Re: Re: About War Driving .. giles (Dec 04)
- RE: About War Driving .. Dan Bogda (Dec 04)
- Re: Re: About War Driving .. anone (Dec 04)
- RE: Re[2]: About War Driving .. Paul Stone (Dec 07)
- RE: Re[2]: About War Driving .. David Gillett (Dec 08)
- RE: Re[2]: About War Driving .. Murda Mcloud (Dec 08)
- Re: About War Driving .. krymson (Dec 08)
- Re: About War Driving .. Eric Furman (Dec 12)
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