RE: Wireless Security

["Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>]

All this makes me wonder if anyone has heard of a service provided by a site
which allows you to do something like this? Eg setup some kind of tunnel to
their servers over an 'insecure' connection from which you can then browse
the world.


-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of steve menard
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:45 AM
To: Security Basics
Cc: Yousef Syed
Subject: Re: Wireless Security

Do you have a machine outside you could setup a ssh tunnel to?

NO? then anyone watching the wireless stream WILL see ALL Traffic
;-(

I went to a mall with a restaurant serving non encrypted wireless
using a ethernet snoop I saw every non encrypted traffic everyone was 
using in almost clear text ;
well clear protocol ; totally easy to trace and decode    ;-P

except for their encrypted sessions ; I saw the traffic but they were 
encrypted
I would have needed to do extra to get them ;-)

Steve


Yousef Syed wrote:
> I need some advice.
> I'm currently staying in an apartment complex that provides free
> wireless Internet access.
> The access has zero crypto - not even WEP.
>
> What can I do on my own Laptops (Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro) to make
> my browsing/internet usage more secure? I also want to ensure that no
> one else on the network is entering my systems.
>
> The Windows Laptop already has Kaspersky Internet Security and various
> spyware/adware checkers etc
>
> Thanks,
> ys
>
>