[geeks] Now GEEKS [rescue] Replacing ... laptop firewalls

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> I was bored one night in my hotel and broke out Nessus. Just a simple
> scan of the hotel class C (192.168.x.0/24.) I've been staying in this
> hotel since January.
> 
> I was floored. Things I found included...
> ... laptops that were wide open (Macs and PCs both.) Not just
> unpatched XP, but wide-open anonymous shares and client software with
> default login privs posted: http://vote4katz.com/?p=70
> ... hotel workstations that were connected to corporate hotel networks
> on the same "open" LAN that guests are on (no segmenting.)
> 
> I'm debating the ethics of breaking out snort on my laptop (on the
> wired guest network) not to be evil, just to see what worm activity
> exists.

I'm guessing the entire place is already owned.



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