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	War dialing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		War dialing or wardialing was the act of using a modem to dial every telephone number in a local area to find out where computers are available, then attempting to access them by guessing passwords.
		Similar to war dialing is a port scan under TCP/IP, which "dials" every TCP port of every IP address to find out what services are available, then gaining access to them by guessing passwords or by exploiting vulnerabilities in software that runs with elevated privileges.
		War dialing is sometimes used as a synonym for demon dialing, a related technique which also involves automating a computer modem in order to repeatedly place telephone calls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_dialing (324 words)

	What is war dialing?
		War dialing, also called scanning, is dialing a large number of telephone numbers in the hope of finding anything interesting.
		War dialing can be done by hand, although dialing several thousand telephone numbers by hand is extremely boring and takes a long time.
		When the war dialing modem calls a telephone number and a human being answers the telephone, the human being will hear silence on the line.
	www.hackfaq.org /telephony/war-dialing.shtml (387 words)

	Hack In The Box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After introducing and exploring the different forms war dialing attacks can take and some tools used to execute such attacks, the article examines measures that can be taken to prevent such an attack.
		A war dialing attack is malicious in intent and is a form of penetration into an organization's network designed to elude firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS).
		War dialing attacks involve attempts at gaining access to an organization's internal computing and networking resources via dial-in access.
	www.hackinthebox.org /print.php?sid=7440 (248 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		War dialing, the act of scanning a large set of phone numbers within an enterprise to find unauthorized and non-secure modems, can cripple the security of enterprise voice and data networks.
		War dialing software is easily available on the Internet and as telephony networks grow in size and complexity the possibility that a modem is left unsecured grows as well.
		War dialing can be detected and terminated using the ETM System's voice firewall, which scans all voice network activity for suspicious trends and terminates any call that doesn't satisfy pre-determined policies.
	www.securelogix.com /War-Dialing.html (352 words)

	J!NX Forums - War Dialing
		A war dialer is a computer program used to identify the phone numbers that can successfully make a connection with a computer modem.
		A war dialer, usually obtained as freeware, is typically used by a hacker to identify potential targets.
		Commercial war dialers, also known as modem scanners, are also used by system administrators, to identify unauthorized modems on an enterprise network.
	www.jinx.com /forum/topic.asp?sid=jinx&TOPIC_ID=9791 (337 words)

	Micro 2000 Tech Tips - Wireless Network Hackers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		War driving is the term used to describe the computer hacking technique that involves driving through a neighborhood with a wireless-enabled notebook computer and mapping houses and businesses that have wireless access points.
		War driving is simply a new age form of war dialing – automatically calling thousands of telephone numbers to look for any that have a modem attached.
		War driving was born of the same idea; trying to detect wireless networks as you walk around and then attempt to gain access.
	www.micro2000uk.co.uk /techtips/techtips_wireless_hackers.htm (1108 words)

	Hacker Notes - War Dialer
		War dialers are generally available as freeware on hacker sites, although as the proliferation of the internet has grown their usage as fallen.
		The war dialer in War Games is not very sophisticated as it only finds phone numbers which are suspected to be computer dial-in lines.
		One task is to set up your dial in modems to just those protocols and speeds that your users will actually use.
	www.leave-me-alone.com /hackers_wardialer.htm (699 words)

	Wireless Insecurities
		The phrase "war driving" is derived from the name of a hacking activity of the 1980s, called "war dialing" - the process of dialing random numbers using a modem, searching for insecure networks with modem access.
		War driving, also called "drive-by hacking," is even easier and cheaper than war dialing was in the ‘80s.
		War driving is illegal, as it falls into the category of unauthorized electronic surveillance, but it’s difficult to catch war drivers.
	www.securitypronews.com /articles/security/spn-23-20020403WirelessInsecurities.html (1664 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Techsploits
		War driving was also popular with spammers, who would drive until they found an open network they could use to deliver slurries of "penis enlargement" emails.
		But for war daters, the whole point is building a fix for their geeky shyness.
		It seems to me that another form of war dating might be to date every single person in a given category on a dating site--you know, all the women who like UNIX or all the men who like bad science fiction movies.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.18.03/work-0351.html (717 words)

	ModemScan Wardialer Home
		Wardialing (also known as telephone scanning or war dialing) is the practice of dialing all the phone numbers in a range in order to find those that will answer with modem or FAX tones.
		After systematically dialing all or some phone numbers, also known as wardialing, war dialing or telephone scanning, they extract numbers which returned information about the remote systems in the targeted organization.
		Periodic and systematic auditing of all owned phone lines by wardialing (war dialing) is the current methodology used by most security departments and external auditors for modem detection.
	www.wardial.net (376 words)

	AlterNet: A History of War
		War driving was also popular with spammers, who would drive until they found an open network they could use to deliver flurries of penis-enlargement e-mails.
		But for war daters, the whole point is generating a fix for their geeky shyness.
		It seems to me that another form of war dating might be to date every single person in a given category on a dating site -- you know, all the women who like UNIX or all the men who like bad science fiction movies.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17404 (770 words)

	Net Q & A: 02-04: What is "war driving?"
		War driving is a cousin of "war dialing," a term popularized in the 1983 movie
		War dialing is hacker use of software that dials many phone numbers automatically, looking for tones that indicate a modem, a potential hacking target.
		Wireless networks, which use a protocol known as IEEE 802.11b, sometimes referred to as "Wi-Fi," for "Wireless Fidelity." War drivers, sometimes known as "whackers," drive around with laptops, inexpensive antennas and free software that can detect the presence of a wireless network within about 300 feet and pinpoint its location using a global positioning device.
	www.netlawtools.com /net_qa/net_qa_archives02-04.html (799 words)

	First Base Technologies: Remote Access Security Testing, War dialing
		War Dialing: Our war dialing service is designed to discover modems, identify software and attempt penetration.
		We attempt penetration of your dial-in connections, using a wide selection of dictionaries and mutated dictionaries, as well as brute force attacks and socially-engineered information.
		We can also undertake war driving and wireless audits in the vicinity of a staff member's home (with their knowledge) in order to review the opportunity for information leakage.
	www.fbtechies.com /Content/Services/remoteaccesssecurity.shtml (429 words)

	[No title]
		War dialing came to the vocabulary of the masses via the movie "War Games." In that film, war dialing is the act of using a modem attached to a computer to dial an entire exchange of phone numbers to locate any computers with modems attached to them.
		War dialing uses that same concept, rather, using laptop computers with wireless cards in them to find open wireless access points in any given area.
		That war driver, if he connects to an openaccess point that is unprotected by its owner, can get into the files, the intellectual properties, of that connected point - if those files are not locked down and unshared.
	www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=71663 (1778 words)

	Crackers favour war dialling and weak passwords \| The Register
		War dialling involves systematically trying to locate the numbers associated with corporate modems through testing each extension of a corporate phone system in turn.
		The issue of war dialling and insecure modem connections was highlighted last month when BT inadvertently published the private remote access numbers of thousands of its customers on its Web site.
		The list was supposed to include the dial up numbers of ISPs, but modem numbers of private companies and people were published as well by mistake.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2002/04/26/crackers_favour_war_dialling (423 words)

	Wireless InFidelity I: War Driving
		War Driving is an extension of the concept of War Dialing that deserves some explanation.
		War Dialing is the technique that the main character in War Games uses to gain access to computer systems.
		War Dialing is the art of scanning lists of phone numbers for the carrier tones that betray modem lines.
	www.berghel.net /col-edit/digital_village/sep-04/dv_9-04.php (2399 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - War Dialing and Driving
		War Games, from 1983, starring Matthew Broderick, was perhaps the first film to deal with something serious in the world of videogames.
		He introduces "war dialer", a real program that seeks out modem connects from a random selection of phone numbers, and says that War Games is also to thank for introducing the "DefCon" scale to the public at large.
		This new laptop technique is called 'war driving', and is actually much easier to do and easier to remain undetected.
	www.infosatellite.com /news/2002/05/p070502wardriving.html (723 words)

	Demon dialing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the cracking scene of the 1980s, demon dialing was a technique by which a computer would repeatedly dial a number (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user had hung up.
		The expansion of accessible internet service provider connectivity since that time more or less rendered the practice obsolete.
		A similar technique was sometimes used to get the first call for prizes in radio "call-in" shows, thus leading to the adoption of random "fifth caller," "seventeenth caller" etc. by radio stations to circumvent this practice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demon_dialing (173 words)

	M4phr1k's Wall of Voodoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Over the hundreds of thousands of numbers I have war dialed I have stayed true to ToneLoc for footprinting, but occasionally in the past it has disappointed me. Here is the problem.
		You can kick off a simple range dial (say 2,000) numbers and if one of the modems or numbers it encounters has a problem the modem you are dialing with could possibly get hung.
		Being in the Big5 security consulting space for 8 years and being tasked with such exotic projects as war dialing and penetrating the corporate world, budget and time constraints were always in play for these high profile engagements.
	home.mminternet.com /~barneshouse/PreWar.htm (360 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Originally, this was done by hand, by simply dialing each number in an exchange, looking for a computer to connect to.
		If your repeat dialing to a single person, you have disturbed them and made an attack against their right to have a phone and not have it ring randomly from some bonehead kid.
		But if you dial at night, only the people who are already awake, or who are tough enough to think it'll do them any good to get up, get out of bed, stumble blindly to the phone, pick it up, and dial *69, will.
	www.textfiles.com /phreak/NUMBERS/scan.phk (732 words)

	War Driving
		Some of you may be asking what war driving is. Much like the War-Dialing of the late 80's and early 90's War Driving is a way to enumerate networks and all from the comfort of your own car.
		There is also war walking which is a more concealed usually using a Pda (iPAQ or Zaurus) instead of a laptop.
		War Chalking is leaving a chalk mark where a wireless network is located and certain symbols for the access to the network.
	www.shadowflux.com /war.html (808 words)

	dialing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Use the International Dialing Codes to find which number to call to reach someone.
		War dialing or wardialing was the act of using a modem to dial every telephone...
		Although the technique predates the film, the name "war dialing" rapidly...
	www.hotvsnot.com /www/dialing (255 words)

	War flying: Wireless LAN sniffing goes airborne
		Wireless LAN war drivers routinely cruise their immediate areas in cars equipped with laptops loaded with a wireless LAN card, an external high-gain antenna and a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.
		The term war driving is derived from the "war-dialing" exploits of the teenage hacker character in the 1983 movie WarGames who has his computer randomly dial hundreds of numbers and eventually winds up tapping into a nuclear command and control system.
		Jason Jordan, a self-described war driver in Perth, Australia, claimed the first war-flying exploit in an Aug. 18 post to the E3 war-driving blog in Australia.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,73901,00.html (639 words)

	WarDriving @ Burchenterprises.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The name is a spin off from the old "war dialing" that hackers used to do where a computer with a modem would automatically dial telephone numbers looking for other computers.
		See the 1983 movie War Games for a great example of War dialing.
		war chalking is sometimes a part of wardriving.
	www.burchenterprises.net /old_site/about.html (176 words)

	pjammer: OCD & War-Dialing San Francisco
		I don't know if I would have gone to that extent..although I would have dialed a succession of numbers, to be certain.
		Haha, now had you booted up the war dialer and began a sweep of all the permutations that would have been something.
		It is also nice to see someone who, though down on their luck, called in the find....Though, on reflection, likely he was looking for the reward...but that is just my cynical take on it....
	pjammer.livejournal.com /134978.html (1366 words)

	Information Security Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In addition to freeware war dialer tools, you can choose from a few recently released commercial modem scanners, which are available as both software and turnkey hardware appliances.
		Although a Palm Pilot war dialer is probably not a practical solution for most security professionals, it certainly provides a new war dialing platform option with a very small footprint.
		Using a freeware modem scanner in a multiple-modem setting requires that you manually divide the numbers to be dialed among the multiple dialers, compile the log files at the end of the war dial, and examine log files to produce a report.
	infosecuritymag.techtarget.com /articles/june00/features1.shtml (3724 words)

	Word Spy - war driving
		war driving is replacing war dialing in the wireless age."
		War driving (brought to my attention by Wired magazine's Gareth Branwyn, with thanks) is a play on the older term war dialing, "automatically calling thousands of telephone numbers to look for any that have a modem attached." War dialing, in turn, comes from the 1983 movie War Games, now a classic in computer cracking circles.
		In the movie a young cracker (Matthew Broderick) is using war dialing to look for games and bulletin board systems.
	www.wordspy.com /words/wardriving.asp (308 words)

	[No title]
		War dialers are programs which do it automatically.
		War dialing is nowadays more needed than ever, because Internet (and especially WWW) has virtually wiped out FidoNet and other amateur networks.
		The problem with the still existing systems is, that they disappear one after another so the BBS lists will be out of date and because of that nobody bothers to compile those lists anymore.
	www.textfiles.com /uploads/wardial.txt (179 words)

	UGN Security BBS: War Dialing help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I have dialed up a computer and it asks me for the username, but when i go to enter it in, it only gives me a couple of seconds and then moves to the password -- not giving me enough time to enter the username and/or password.
		OK are you dialing a computer or are you connecting to a computer through a medium like telnet.
		Their job is to dial a range of phone lines and list the ones that are computers.
	www.undergroundnews.com /cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=3;t=000360 (1759 words)

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