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Posted by on January 12, 2007, 3:34 pm
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Open access to wireless routers is a major issue for all parties
involved. One, if any networking is configured, and you are on the
internal network, a breach is not very difficult. Two, if the person
that accesses the router (let's say yours) is a "power user", they will
be able to sniff your traffic for credit card numbers, etc, since most
home routers broadcast the majority of traffic to anyone. Even if the
router doesent, they can make it do so. They can also download
anything, movies, music, child porn, whatever. The router owner is
often times stuck with this, unless they log the router (which is a
growing trend). The above things are all things that most wireless
routers know. Now let's look at the euphoric world of the bandwidth
stealer. You generally only hear good things for them, free internet
with 0 liability. Using someone else's router gives them the same
abilities to hack you as you do to hack them, aside from them not being
liable for the internet traffic. Back hacking is a game I'm hearing
more and more of where hackers open a router but throttle it so they
can find easy computer targets. Another more malicious attack is
available though. If someone sets up a computer to pass data through,
they can log all of your information. Let's say turning a linux box
into a wireless router. The machine can be configured with pre-built
webpages like banks, ebay, amazon, etc. This is easy to do since you
really only have to do the login page, take their user/id and password
and pass it to the bank, or just put up a "this page is temporarily
unavailable screen". Other instances are faking being a commerical
hotspot, where many make you download a bit of software to use them.
This software can turn out to be a backdoor into your computer, a
virus, whatever. WEP does not fully protect against this either, since
you can break WEP. I would recommend not using wireless networks if you
dont want to risk anything.
> > 1) Can virus spread across a wireless network between computers which are
> > only sharing the internet connection?
> > 2) Is it possible for users sharing an internet connection to gain access to
> > files on other computers sharing the connection?If there are file services
enabled on this computers: yes.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> "Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."
> Grace Hopper
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Posted by Volker Birk on January 12, 2007, 3:50 pm
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requeth@gmail.com wrote:
> I would recommend not using wireless networks if you
> dont want to risk anything.
Maybe endpoint to endpoint encryption will help for the risky parts.
Yours,
VB.
--
"Pornography is an abstract phenomenon. It cannot exist without a medium
to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex."
Tina Lorenz
<https://events.congress.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events/1422.en.html>
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