Eek, leeches on my wireless network!

[amnesiac]

Stupid me got sidetracked and forgot to enable MAC address filtering on our wireless router. I checked the settings today and found 2 people logged in that weren't supposed to be there.
Quickly punted them off. Even worse, I had a shared directory with our client list that was supposed to be on a PC with a firewall..just checked and apparently Zone Alarm Pro uninstalled itself when I wasn't looking. I hope none of our information was compromised.

 

[Sundog]

Hope they didn't do anything with the info. How sensitive is/was it?

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Sundog
Hope they didn't do anything with the info. How sensitive is/was it?

Nothing terribly sensitive..just copies of memos and stuff sent to clients, etc. Also our client list, most of them are publicly listed anyway.

 

[notfred]

sorry, it was me.

 

[Spikey289]

Hey Not fred What ever happened with that? Did you tell your neighbor to turn on wep?

 

[aux]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
...just checked and apparently Zone Alarm Pro uninstalled itself when I wasn't looking. ...

strange things happen

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Crap.. that's why my roommate and I couldn't connect.... I'm not even joking. Do you live in Austin?

 

[brtspears2]

Eh, I leech wireless too. If you leave your door open, I'll help myself to some free access.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
Stupid me got sidetracked and forgot to enable MAC address filtering on our wireless router. I checked the settings today and found 2 people logged in that weren't supposed to be there.
Quickly punted them off. Even worse, I had a shared directory with our client list that was supposed to be on a PC with a firewall..just checked and apparently Zone Alarm Pro uninstalled itself when I wasn't looking. I hope none of our information was compromised.

so you had wep on and they still got in?

 

[wnied]

I hope none of our information was compromised

"Hope" is not a word someone wants to hear from their person in charge of IT security.
~wnied~

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: XFILE


so you had wep on and they still got in?

WEP isn't all that difficult to crack. I broke into my own network in about three hours with 128 bit WEP. Naturally it would take longer on other WiFi. I transfered a lot of data for the explicit purpose of testing how long it would take to break the WEP key.

 

[Krk3561]

How do you do mac filtering on a Linksys WAP and router? I am also using a Linksys USB WiFi adapter