Hi, Guest
04-06-2006, 01:57 AM
So I'm at home last night trying last night to repair the office laptop that the boss managed to hose yet again <_< and I was trying to use my wireless network router to get patches from M$'s website. My net connection had decided graciously to take a dump so I was screwed... or so I thought.
On a lark I decided to let the 'top see what other networks it could find in range.
It found 8 networks only 2 of which were secured :o
So I took a chance, latched onto the connection with the strongest signal and grabbed the files I needed.
Moral of the story? Secure your wireless networks! If me, Joe Average computer user, using nothing more than Windows XP's built in tools can find an unsecured network in less than a minute and latch onto it, imagine what a hacker with bad intentions could do? :ph34r:
NefCanuck
(My network is secured thank you very much :P )
On a lark I decided to let the 'top see what other networks it could find in range.
It found 8 networks only 2 of which were secured :o
So I took a chance, latched onto the connection with the strongest signal and grabbed the files I needed.
Moral of the story? Secure your wireless networks! If me, Joe Average computer user, using nothing more than Windows XP's built in tools can find an unsecured network in less than a minute and latch onto it, imagine what a hacker with bad intentions could do? :ph34r:
NefCanuck
(My network is secured thank you very much :P )