| BillW50 2005-03-30, 7:49 pm |
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"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
news:114gpous6i9ai6a@corp.supernews.com...
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:20:45 -0600
... I never even bother to rename the Admin account. They can't try
to "guess" the Admin password until they are first presented with a
"credentials prompt" to do that,...and how are they going to do
that unless they are sitting at another machine physically on your
LAN? And if they were that close why bother with another
machine?....they'd just sit at the machine itself, hit Crtl-Alt-Del
and keep trying passwords as their beard grew longer.
Well Phillip... I also run a wireless network here. And the whole game
changes! As instead of a hacker trying to get through the Internet
(which someone like me has lots of protection), they can get through on
the less secured inside. While I knew someone with the right equipment
could see and perhaps access your computer up to a mile away. While the
rest of us are lucky if we could see our network just 150 feet away.
And with WLAN, they don't need to sit next to you and keep trying
passwords until their beards grew long. As hackers have software which
does that for them many times per second. And they can go to sleep and
wake up later and have the password cracked. And renaming the user named
Administrator, only makes their task that much harder.
I was just listening to Kevin Mitnick a few days ago who talked about a
hacker's conference in Las Vegas called something like Deathcom. And
they had a contest to see how far away someone could still access
someone's WLAN. And the winner went to somebody who could at 51 miles
away. That is just amazing!
Now if you had a real Server that was exposing "services"
intensionally to the Internet, that is a little different.
I've been actually thinking of doing such a thing. Although I am not in
any great hurry.
It just isn't like the Hollywood movies, and it isn't like watching
The Matrix.
Kevin also talked about people who don't pay for any Internet access
anymore. As they simply use their directional antenna and steal someone
else's from a (usually from an open) WLAN. That in itself makes for a
great Hollywood movie right there. By the way, ever seen that movie
called "War Games"? I really liked that one.
Cheers!
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Bill (using a HP AMD 1.2GHZ & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000
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