Effen hackers!

[Steve]

Originally posted by Danzig
I can hit 4 other APs in my driveway. It is just crazy out there. It seems the better the neighborhood the more APs and the less security.

Not crazy; they just don't know.

 

[TWL]

Originally posted by Danzig
Buy a firewall program or get a hardware firewall

I can't stress the importance of a firewall. A good firewall would have silently dropped all packets the script-kiddie sent to Sharon's IP esentially making it invisable.

Originally posted by Steve
If she is on DHCP, she should be fine.

Not necessarily. Many times have I released a lease and obtained the same IP. It depends if that IP has been leased to another client. If it hasn't, there's a good chance you'll get the same IP.


Danzig, I have to critique you on the use of the term hacker. As a Linux hacker, I am slightly offended in the way these words are used.
A hacker is someone who is an expert or enthusiast.
A cracker is an individual who attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system.
Although both terms are the same, in recent years the meanings are drifting apart.

Another thing that bothers me is why in the world do manufactures call cable or dsl modems 'modems'? They do not modulate/demodulate anything. Modems take an analog signal and converts it to digital and viceversa. Cable and DSL are already digital. These are in fact routers, bridges, or brouters not modems.

Don't even get me started on the 1000(IEC standard) vs. 1024(ISO standard) for hard drive capacity phenomenon. Hard drive manufacturers use the IEC standard to determine the capacity while the OS uses the ISO standard. The IEC standard is based on the metric system while the ISO standard is based on the binary system. Since computers are based on the binary system, shouldn't the whole computer be based on the binary system?

Sorry for my ranting.....I'm just not feeling too good right now. Everything seems to be irratate me. Hopefully after getting all thout, I'll start feeling better.

 

[Sharon]

The best bet is too reset your cable modem and reset your router

Did that first, didn't work.

Buy a firewall program or get a hardware firewall.

We have one. That doesn't prevent someone from doing a DoS on you.


It's over and done with. 2A is a senior systems analyst, network administrator, software developer, yada, yada...we have everything in computer stuff you could ever imagine. He put the fix on it early, but that didn't stop them from trying for hours afterward.

Hackers - crackers, who gives a ####!

People who try to mess with 'others' computer systems should be shot!

 

[2ndAmendment]

Originally posted by Danzig ...unless you know what you are doing, and you don’t.

Since it has been said that I don't know what I am doing, I am glad Sharon pointed out some of my official duties as a professional. full time.

The DoS attack came from four hosts. I got the IPs from the router incoming connection log. It may have been one person or four people. I looked up the IPs using ARIN and APNIC and reported the abuse to the technical contacts for the IP block. The host from China was trying a massive connect attempt on a forwarded FTP port to my development computer.

I immediately shutdown the connection to the router from the cable company. I configured the router to do no forwarding. I killed all the ftp connections after gathering output from netstat and a ps -ef | grep ftp command to gather evidence to turn over to authorities. I hope to put this attacker or attackers in jail. I will pursue this as far as I can.

For the "experts' that don't know, the cable company trys to reassign the same IP for the duration of the leasehold even if you do a release of the leasehold or disconnect. The IP is assigned based on the MAC address which is at the hardware level. So as soon as you reconnect, the same IP is reassigned. Typical leasehold starts at 7 days; a long tme to wait to get a new IP. To combat this, I used the MAC spoofing capability of my router. MAC spoofing can be dicey affair if you don't own more than one hardware interface. You can't just grab a MAC address you don't own or you may step on someone. With a new MAC address, we immediately got a new IP.

Do any of the "experts" see any problems with this?

 

[oODreadOo]

I have to agree with TWl on the difference between the terms. I think that term "Hacker" has been severely over used and most importantly misused by the media which obviously drifts down to the end user. There is nothing wrong with a thirst for knowledge, it's what you do with that knowledge that defines you.
And lets be real here... there is no such thing as a 100% "safe" computer...No matter what OS you are using. ( Nothing against the big OS providers .. not even against Gates....even though I have seen less holes in swiss cheese... but that's a different thread... lmao)

Anyway that's my two cents... you can pick up the change at the next counter.