So I'm at work, doing some testing on some laptops and upon bootup of one of them I see XP telling me theres a wireless network to connect to.
My company is not friendly to wireless networking yet (parnoid financial institution), so I drop net stumbler on it, grab the Data Security manager and go "War Walking" to find it. We track down a contractor's laptop in a cuby hole office and verify it's definately his laptop and shut his wifi off and BAM, no more broadcasting.
The wierd thing is the SSID was "Free Public Wifi". So we find the contractor and notify him of this and he's completely unknowledgeable about it. He's a mid 50's guy that works with mainframes, but was using a recent model dell laptop with built in wireless.
I'm fairly confident he wasn't doing this intentional but my Data Security manager just says "keep it off when you're on-site please" and calls it done.
Can someone else explain this to me? Could his laptop somehow been hijacked into doing that sort of thing? And for what purpose? I'll answer any additional questions to detail I can on the matter to someone more "expert" than me with wireless security.
My company is not friendly to wireless networking yet (parnoid financial institution), so I drop net stumbler on it, grab the Data Security manager and go "War Walking" to find it. We track down a contractor's laptop in a cuby hole office and verify it's definately his laptop and shut his wifi off and BAM, no more broadcasting.
The wierd thing is the SSID was "Free Public Wifi". So we find the contractor and notify him of this and he's completely unknowledgeable about it. He's a mid 50's guy that works with mainframes, but was using a recent model dell laptop with built in wireless.
I'm fairly confident he wasn't doing this intentional but my Data Security manager just says "keep it off when you're on-site please" and calls it done.
Can someone else explain this to me? Could his laptop somehow been hijacked into doing that sort of thing? And for what purpose? I'll answer any additional questions to detail I can on the matter to someone more "expert" than me with wireless security.