[SECURITY]

[Maria Peluso <mpb () UMN EDU>]

I'm thinking about traceability\forensics for legally private data
releases via malware.

Maria



On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Roger Safian
<r-safian () northwestern edu> wrote:
> Andy – I’m not sure what you are asking.  It sounds like the software is
> working as expected.  Are you asking about ways to prevent this?
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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of HOGGATT, ANDY F.
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:27 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY]
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>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> I’ve recently conducted testing using a piece of software called
> “Connectify”.  This software allows a user to turn their wireless laptop
> into a Wi-fi Hotspot.  The software creates virtual wireless interfaces for
> its hosts and then utilizes NAT to make the connection appear as if it’s
> coming from the Hotspot instead of the connected hosts.    By doing so a
> student is able to allow other students to piggy-back off their wireless
> connection, with only the one device/user authenticated on our student,
> wireless network.  When viewing the logs of our firewall, connections
> appear, in regards to both I.P. address and MAC address, as if the
> connections are originating from the Wifi-hotspot and not the connected
> hosts.  I suspect that Internet tethering such as this may become more
> prevalent as more smartphones begin to  incorporate this functionally into
> their operating systems.
>
>
>
> Has anyone else received any other reports similar to this and has anyone
> come up with a solution to help remedy the situation?  Any and all feedback
> would be welcome.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
>
>
>
> Andy Hoggatt
>
> Ozarks Technical Community College
>
> Interim Network Security Systems Administrator
>
> hoggatta () otc edu
>
> 417.447.7535



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Maria Peluso
University of Minnesota
Office of Information Technology, Security & Assurance
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612-626-9310                        mpb () umn edu