Open wireless and security

espresso

sinizterguy wrote: »

What if the owner had intentionally left it open to share ?

:doh:

Irrelevant, what about the OP's obligation to security terms with their bank/credit card company?

Read the original question!

Voyager2002 wrote:

Should I use this for on-line banking? How great is the risk of theft of passwords, CC numbers, etc?

Answer NO.

:rolleyes:

sinizterguy

espresso wrote: »

:doh:




Answer NO.

:rolleyes:

And that is what I said too. If you thought otherwise, read my post again.

Conor_3

sinizterguy wrote: »

Which part would that be then ?

All of it.

I guess you're completely oblivious to all the exploits and cracking tools there are for networked computers?

Do a quick "nmap", see what's connected and what OS/Services they're running, fire off a few exploits for those OSes/services and you're in.

If you've got File and Printer Sharing enabled, you might as well just have them sat there at the keyboard. Password protecting shares is a complete waste of time other than to discourage the casual/newbie.

Also it's easy to log the "secure" URL Hotmail returns when they log on, such as:

http://by117w.bay117.mail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?lc=1234&id=123456&gs=true

and use that to connect to their account automatically. (I've altered the numbers so don't bother). Gmail works the same.