Re: DoD ...and r57(!?)

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:13 AM, t0hitsugu <tohitsugu () gmail com> wrote:
> ...
> I noticed my connection had suddenly slowed to a crawl and did a scan on
> myself (running bt5 gnome 32) and was quite surprised to see I had around 18
> open ports, most of them connected to a server with the ip of
> 26.195.181.202. Curious, I did  a GET on one of them 33644 and saw the r57
> spider pop up. I tried to ncat a couple more in hopes of getting a bind to
> trace but they all closed shortly after.
>
> According to wireshark, nmap and whois they werent being spoofed. The server
> also happens to be registered to the DoD...lol.
>
> Has anyone ever encountered something like this before? Seems a lot of
> trouble youd be risking borrowing the address of a military/gov domain.


how do you know they weren't being spoofed? a local attacker on
wireless can pretend to be any endpoint in your path.

bet you weren't watching arp tables. (static arp; an oldie but goodie...)

wpa2 is a fig leaf, and wifi carries far beyond the walls of your
coffee shop. you need kismet not wireshark for these situations.

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