Re: Sneaking a peek on Wlan in airports

From: Tremaine Lea (pen-test@ddiction.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 13:35:40 EDT


Starting a sniffer by error is pretty unlikely.

Starting a sniffer and then closing your laptop after having
forgotten about it, that's not unlikely.

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Tremaine Lea
Network Security Consultant
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On 17-May-07, at 4:15 AM, Eduardo Di Monte wrote:
> Jasper,
>
> You don´t run a sniffer by error, so stay away from doing this again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eduardo Di Monte
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: listbounce@securityfocus.com  
> [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] En
> nombre de jasper.o.waale@kh.pwc.com
> Enviado el: miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2007 7:20
> Para: listbounce@securityfocus.com; pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Asunto: Sneaking a peek on Wlan in airports
>
> I'm sure you as I have many time been in airport with public wlan  
> access and
> by error had some kind of sniffer running ?
>
> well I has Cain open because of a general scan I was making related  
> to a
> test, and I picked up a Pop3 account and password, I did try to  
> find the guy
> to tell him but did not see anybody with a laptop, so what now do I  
> email
> him as asking him to update the password or do I just ignore it and  
> let he
> carry on doing this to him self and his firm.
>
> Regards
>
> Jasper O Waale
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