Author Topic: Spooky Experience (Read 1687 times)

Estes · « **Reply #15 on:** January 09, 2004, 12:10:13 AM »

One of my friends has his laptop over, he has a wireless network card for his house, then he has a regular ethernet which is what i use in the house.

Anyway, we booted it up, and noticed that the wireless lan picked up a signal, it was really low signal but it connected, was like 1.5 mbps I think.

Some poor guy/gal in the neighborhood didn't set it up right and I was able to get a connect of them.

and of course, he didn't have his router configured so you could just type in the default, admin password and get in.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 09, 2004, 01:28:06 AM »

Estes, I see that every time I set up WiFi for a friend. There's always some twit in the neighborhood with everything wide open.

Estes · « **Reply #17 on:** January 09, 2004, 08:02:03 AM »

Man Funked, you ruin my day. I thought I was special.

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #18 on:** January 09, 2004, 01:52:18 PM »

Great thread. I was actually thinking of getting a cable connection until seeing this discussion. Now, I will only consider such a connection with a hardware firewall.

My question: What are the best sources for configuring such a firewall?

Thanks,

MiG

Soulyss · « **Reply #19 on:** January 09, 2004, 03:00:40 PM »

My friends and I used to cruise the on campus housing network when we were in school. Occasionally we'd find a resident who's computer was wide open or had their printer on the network what not. Well my friend also worked for the housing dept. So one day he decided to drive the point home that people should protect their computers on a network. He found a open system got the guys name off his email and then went to work and pulled the guys record then one night late at night he had the poor guys printer just spit out a little note saying "Hello Mr. so-and-so... SS# 123-45-6789... who lives in room blah-blah-blah of this building... you really shouldn't leave your computer open on the network who knows what people can find out about you."

The printer and computer soon disappeared.

qts · « **Reply #20 on:** January 09, 2004, 04:07:32 PM »

ZoneAlarm is one of the best firewalls out there for protecting a single PC. You can gain a lot of protection simply by using NAT. For protecting a network, you can dig out an old PC and install Smoothwall. Agnitum Outpost is also good.

I'm a firm believer in layered defence.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 09, 2004, 05:18:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Estes
Man Funked, you ruin my day. I thought I was special.

Well it's not always as bad as the case you describe, but there's always something open.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 09, 2004, 05:19:43 PM »

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Originally posted by CMC Airboss
Great thread. I was actually thinking of getting a cable connection until seeing this discussion. Now, I will only consider such a connection with a hardware firewall.

My question: What are the best sources for configuring such a firewall?

Thanks,

MiG

FWIW the problem we are discussing (Radmin being wide open) would be just as bad on DSL as with cable.

jigsaw · « **Reply #23 on:** January 09, 2004, 10:38:33 PM »

So many options for hardware type firewalls...
Pick up an old cisco 25xx or 26xx router off ebay for pocket change, configure NAT and/or access lists. Several people have mentioned having a PC front end for the network. Late versions of Redhat are great for setting up something like that. Literally walks you through configuring DCHP and IPChains.