Ok, It's more cool that I noticed something was wrong than it was (may have been) actually happening.
I am studying CCNA, M$ Server 2k3, and Linux+, so I have 5 computers going doing different things. One (Bender, the old laptop) runs Look@LAN most of the time. Another (Motherbrain, the trusty old fileserver) never had the Symantec firewall disabled like I did with some used company computers I bought/was donated. And for some strange reason my laptop's (dell, run Net-stumbler sometimes) wireless would get onto the network, but not the ethernet plug . . .. . ??? I figured I can't let a little problem like that stop an up and coming network guy like me right?
After about 15 minutes of ping attempts, making sure it was connected, and reseting my modem and linksys WRT54G (fixed the problem), I noticed Motherbrain had one too many workgroups showing(I was doing homework). A look at Bender's L@L and I had a guest using my router. ????? WTF??? Laptop was on my router via and nice long WPA password. Net-stumbler picked up her router/network. Hell, I even got a look at her name in the "corp" workgroup with her first and last name conveniently assigned as the computer name. Did I mention I'm a part time Real Estate agent and got her address about a minute later? 3 town houses down and across the street, nice clear wifi shot. The end result is that I have turned off my wireless for now.
Anyway, I can't really imagine that this person hacked my router and network on a machine named after her on purpose(or can I?). Especially when there are two unprotected routers between us, and that's just on my side. So my question is, where did I go wrong with my WPA security? Or, how could that have happened accidentally? My router gave her an IP address. Maybe it was a hack?
I think I may go for the CCSP after the CCNA . . . . . I found the whole thing rather exciting. I do have a few screen shots from my laptop as I was trying to figure out what was going on if that would help.
I am studying CCNA, M$ Server 2k3, and Linux+, so I have 5 computers going doing different things. One (Bender, the old laptop) runs Look@LAN most of the time. Another (Motherbrain, the trusty old fileserver) never had the Symantec firewall disabled like I did with some used company computers I bought/was donated. And for some strange reason my laptop's (dell, run Net-stumbler sometimes) wireless would get onto the network, but not the ethernet plug . . .. . ??? I figured I can't let a little problem like that stop an up and coming network guy like me right?
After about 15 minutes of ping attempts, making sure it was connected, and reseting my modem and linksys WRT54G (fixed the problem), I noticed Motherbrain had one too many workgroups showing(I was doing homework). A look at Bender's L@L and I had a guest using my router. ????? WTF??? Laptop was on my router via and nice long WPA password. Net-stumbler picked up her router/network. Hell, I even got a look at her name in the "corp" workgroup with her first and last name conveniently assigned as the computer name. Did I mention I'm a part time Real Estate agent and got her address about a minute later? 3 town houses down and across the street, nice clear wifi shot. The end result is that I have turned off my wireless for now.
Anyway, I can't really imagine that this person hacked my router and network on a machine named after her on purpose(or can I?). Especially when there are two unprotected routers between us, and that's just on my side. So my question is, where did I go wrong with my WPA security? Or, how could that have happened accidentally? My router gave her an IP address. Maybe it was a hack?
I think I may go for the CCSP after the CCNA . . . . . I found the whole thing rather exciting. I do have a few screen shots from my laptop as I was trying to figure out what was going on if that would help.