Little scanners go snicker-snack!

As suspected, our piece and quiet did not last. George set up a warning system in the server room,  and if the DHCP settings were touched, it would set off an alarm. He didn’t trust our “friend” to leave us alone either.

9:15am, this beeping started in the server room. George had this feral look on his face and ran to the server room. The noise stopped, and he hollered “Aha!”. George came out clutching a printout and grabbed his laptop and the Wi-Spy box. George and Kevin headed out the door and were gone in under 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, I dealt with the fact that my internet connection was acting like a ditz. On.. off. On-off-on. Finally, I just gave up and turned everything off. George and Kevin came back around 3pm. Barely said hello, and plugged the laptop into the network and started printing off page after page of information. They’d used the Wi-Spy and Channelizer to track the signals they knew of as well as new ones. Our town is so “new” to the internet that most people leave their routers wide open because they don’t know how to lock them down and make them secure. Hell, even half the techs that install them for the phone companies don’t know how to secure them. So, when they went driving, they could locate all the routers and signals in the area. The software they have works with the GPS program and makes maps. Since they’ve mapped the town before to adjust the business signals, they are familiar with the area. This and a bit of logic gave them a pretty good idea of where the attacks were originating.

By the time I left for the day, George and Kevin had a list of suspects. Yes, our nemisis, Hughes, was high on the list. 4 of his high dollar clients as well as his main antenna farm are right in the middle of the suspect area. The guys were beginning to talk in Hacker-ese, so I figured I’d leave. I’ll let them burn through plan after plan, all the hot pockets, energy drinks and pop-tarts they wanted without me around.

Tags: GPS, hot pockets, Wi-Spy