Feb
15
2009

Hack Detection At 30,000 Feet!

I have an iTouch I got this Chistmas. It’s mainly for me to be able to watch movies while traveling. As I prefer widescreen format movies, my iPod classic’s screen simply leaves much to be desired.

Some of the iTouch’s cool features is that it has WiFi capability so it can connect to wireless networks to surf the web, send/recieve e-mail, use twitter, & even update this website.

As I used the iTouch more I’ve become aware of apps that assist in network detection, etc. and so I now use my iTouch as a WiFi scanner and tester. I have it set to autodetect open wireless connections…mostly to save time and also see who is wide open in a given area (possible security exploite, etc. with my clients).

So imagin my suprise when I discover that I am connected to something called FreePublicWiFi while I am in route from Seattle to Anchorage!

Here I am at over 30,000 feet and I am connected to an open public wireless connection?!?!?

I remember reading an article about how hackers use that as a dupe to establish connectivity between two systems allowing the attacker to communicate with the “Free Public WiFi” host as if they were a legitimate user on the same LAN (giving them access to your shares, internet if you are connected or WORSE depending on the attackers toolset).

So I look around and lo and behold there is a young lady with her dell a row away.

I go and introduce myself and hand her my business card (figured that way I wouldn’t look like some type of airborne letch).

Within minutes I’m able to remove her open ad-hoc network on her XP laptop. I also wrote down some free A/V and anti-spyware tools she could use to make her PC more secure.

She wanted to thank me and I told her to thank me by spreading the word about not connecting to any free public wifi connections, or if you do and you’re not connected to the internet…remove them from your Windows Preferred Networks roster.

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Written by Karl in: Hacks/Cracks |
Feb
20
2006

If you still don’t want to believe how bad it is out there after reading this article….

Go ahead and do so:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401342.html

Please keep your PC up to date on security updates and know that there are are people making a good six figures (multiply his monthly income by 12) so they are VERY MOTIVATED to continue doing this.


Is your windows PC up to date today?

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Written by Admin in: Hacks/Cracks |
Jul
16
2004

Site ‘hacked’ recently…..

The site was "hacked" <yawn>.  At least that’s what the replaced index page said.

It was my fault, I’ll admit that I hadn’t done all the necessary security updates to my blog.  It’s summer…I’ve been riding the Harley, etc. and frankly hadn’t gotten around to it.

So…how bad was this site hacked you ask?  Did I loose data?  Was the site corrupted?

Uh…no.

The little PUNK script kiddie changed my main index page.

I was soooooooooooooo devastated <yawn> I just changed the one index page back.  It wasn’t even a webpage I designed!  I just had to replace the blog’s index <sigh>.

I mean dude!  You didn’t even change any other index pages for any of the other sections (i.e. themes, gallery, calendar, etc.), so HOW COULD YOU SAY IT WAS HACKED!!!!

<shaking head>
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Written by Admin in: Hacks/Cracks |
Mar
09
2004

Virus files are NOT from us!

The beagle virus (e.g., 32.BEAGLE@MM WORM) is “spoofing” email domain names across the internet and leray.org and leray.us are not immune. We are now actively blocking these messages, however, you may have already received one in your Inbox.

The virus is sending email that appears to have been sent by leray.org and leray.us alerting subscribers of potential problems with their mail server and asking them to download an attachment.

Do not download this attachment – instead delete messages that fit this description.

If you receive any suspicious messages, before downloading attachments please go to w32.beagle">
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle and download their repair tool. If you have downloaded the virus then DEFINATELY get the tool!
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