Pro Hack - 2 new articles

Pro Hack - 2 new articles


Vulnerable SCADA systems in Finland – Shodan,Hackers and Security.

Security researchers in Finland have turned up thousands of unsecured Internet-facing SCADA systems in that country, using the Shodan search engine.The researchers, from Aalto University, ran their test in January, and found 2,915 exposed systems running functions from building automation to transport and water supply. Those responses were out of a total of 185,000 Finnish IP addresses that responded to an HTTP request. Vulnerable SCADA systems in Finland - Shodan, Hackers and Security

According to communications and networking professor Jukka Manner,exposed building automation systems, the researchers claimed, included a bank, a gaol, and a hospital.  Researchers claimed that many systems were vulnerable through their remote user interfaces.Interestingly, when the university re-ran its test in March, it found that a large number of the systems had been removed from the Internet, although 1,969 of the systems were still present.

"A lot of problems can … still be hiding",

according to research assistant Seppo Tillkainen, since as much as 30 percent of the Finnish IP address space is still not mapped by Shodan. While systems spotted in the Shodan search even included a wind turbine, the majority of poorly-secured systems were in office blocks and residential towers, the study says. The researchers did not go as far as to actually try to penetrate the systems, citing Finland's computer crimes laws.

A Google translation of the university's press release is here. For Finnish readers, the whole study is here.

 

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Wardriving at Delhi–Wardriving revisited

The last time I wardrived at Delhi was over 2 years ago, I was at Tulip Telecom then and was doing something of a personal project then. Well, now I am at Orange and thought of replicating the feat, this time I will be publishing the details of networks I wardrived while going to Gurgaon from Delhi. It was done using  combination of G-Mon,Kismet, Moocherhunter  and you just might find it useful. I intent to make a map of Delhi with all the access points , which does sounds incredulous & far fetched, but yep, I intend to do it and I am doing it bit by bit. It helps to analyse in layman terms -
  1. The security awareness of people and organizations
  2. The devices they are using
  3. The security mechanisms they are using.
  4. Wifi range analysis of individual device.
Wardriving at Delhi–Wardriving revisited - theprohack.com , image credits Textually
Well, in all you can find the data from below links -
  1. Hotspot details / BSSID (See if you are on the list) =))
  2. Google Maps KML Data (See it in Google Maps)
If you are interested in contributing to the data, please contact me at admin<at>theprohack.com

Happy Wardriving
- Rishabh Dangwal


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