Re: Trojan horse Downloader.Generic.ML

From: Art (null_at_zilch.com)
Date: 06/22/05 

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:38:17 GMT

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:56:24 -0400, kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

<snip>

>if your wireless access point is using wep security then there's the
>vulnerability right there... does it allow a cracker to gain access to
>your system? perhaps not... does it allow a cracker to read all your
>network traffic in an unprotected form? yes, yes it does...
>
>not all security breaches result in system penetration...

I'm wondering if ISPs are starting to crack down on the use of
wireless. There seems to be a lot of "freeloading" going on, for one
thing, where wideband customers are allowing their friends nearby to
share their ISP service. Plus, crackers with high gain antennas may be
able to freeload wideband services from various nearby sources with
a bit of additional detective work.

And it seems to me that hackers could glean enough info to penetrate
many "typical user" unsecured systems.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg