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	War Dialers
		The legality of wardialing varies from place to place.
		When hackers target companies, one of the first things they do is wardial the central office near the company.
		Companies rarely control the dial-in ports as strictly as the firewall, and machines with attached modems are sprinkled throughout the company on people's desktop computers and special-purpose computers that communicate with partners.
	www.iss.net /security_center/advice/Countermeasures/Scanners/War_Dialers/default.htm (280 words)

	Wardialing
		Wardialing is a method used to attempt to gain access to a computer or computer network by using a phone line to connect to a remote computer modem.
		When wardialing common user names and passwords such as default user names and passwords may be used to attempt to access the network or computer systems.
		Wardialing attacks may try to exploit a vulnerability in the computer system to gain access but will usually try to use common or default user names and passwords to gain access.
	www.comptechdoc.org /independent/security/terms/wardialing.html (144 words)

	ISO17799 / BS7799 / ISO27001 - Callio Technologies - ISO 17799 / BS 7799 / ISO 27001
		Wardialing is used less frequently nowadays as a footprinting technique due to the transition from dial-up access to virtual private networks (VPNs).
		Phreakers would use wardialing tools to identify and take control of special carrier equipment such as private branch exchanges (PBXs).
		In order to ensure the continual improvement of our dictionary, Callio Technologies is soliciting the collaboration of individuals interested in sitting on a committee of experts responsible for reviewing dictionary content and ensuring the accuracy of new and revised dictionary articles.
	www.callio.com /expertise/encyclopedia.asp?termid=3546 (274 words)

	WYAE - PAW/PAWS Wardialer
		Wardialing tools are - despite their martialic naming - used to find nonauthorized modems so one can disable those and as result make access to the internal network harder.
		Wardialing and modem pentesting is - after the first brainless dial-robot-run - more an art than a quickly taught run-down recipe, especially since things can break if not handled carefully.
		I once wardialed a client who was not aware that his telephone system relayed each and every non-valid number and/or service to the front desk.
	www.wyae.de /software/paw (693 words)

	totse.com \| Wardialing Brief
		Wardialing consists of using a computer to dial a given set of telephone numbers with a modem.
		Wardialing, or scanning, has been a common activity in the computer underground and computer serucity industry for decades.
		Seventeen years after the mainstream was made aware of wardialing activity, the problem of unprotected dial-up systems still exists in the majority of corporations.
	www.totse.com /en/hack/introduction_to_hacking/161940.html (1034 words)

	[No title]
		Wardialing through VoIP Written by vox August 30, 2004 Introduction ============ Wardialing is favorite activity of mine, and for many other phreaks and hackers as well.
		For those who don't know what 'Wardialing' is, it's having your computer, a modem, and software, dial a large amount of phone numbers in search of modem carrier tones.
		Wardialing Software (ToneLoc v1.10 is highly recommended) Configuring ToneLoc v1.10 to Work with VoIP =========================================== I have been experimenting with wardialing through VoIP by using only the 'ToneLoc' wardialer.
	www.hackcanada.com /blackcrawl/telecom/wardialvoip.txt (980 words)

	Science Fair Projects - War dialing
		War dialing or wardialing was a technique in the 1980s and '90s 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 term is also used today by analogy for various sorts of exhaustive brute force attack against an authentication mechanism, such as a password.
		While a dictionary attack might involve trying each word in a dictionary as the password, wardialing the password would involve trying every possible password.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/War_dialing (381 words)

	Binary Revolution Forums > wardialing
		I was dooing some hand scanning and realized how big a pain in the ass it really is. if so what new programs are out there or is every one still useing toneloc.
		Jul 24 2004, 05:16 AM I just say fuck it and handscan.I dont want to miss something.I really need to learn how to program so I can make myself a wardialer for VOIP.;Like dial 2 numbers at the same time and shit!heh that would be nice.
		wardialing is really only good for finding carriers.
	www.binrev.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t7543.html (374 words)

	Learn more about Wardriving in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term wardriving comes from wardialing, which is the random or sequential dialing of phone numbers to find data lines, the numbers of which are logged in order to facilitate future attempts to hack into the computer on the other end.
		Wardialing was popular in the 1980s, particularly after the release of the movie WarGames, in which Matthew Broderick played a teenage hacker whose wardialing software taps into an experimental defense computer.
		While some wardrivers do engage in more malicious hacking endeavors, the average wardriver is typically only searching for open file servers from which to copy software or media files, or looking for free high-speed Internet access while on the road.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wa/wardriving.html (396 words)

	News - IT Security News - SC Magazine UK
		Wardialing is like a port scanner for telephones.
		Just as with a port scanner, available wardialing products only look for resources that they have been programmed to recognize.
		We have found that attended wardialing sessions (with experts trained in understanding common carrier based applications and devices) eliminate most of the false reporting problems of automated unattended wardialing products.
	www.scmagazine.com /uk/news/article/419447/wardialing-forgotten-front-war-against-hackers (974 words)

	War dialing at AllExperts
		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.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/war_dialing.htm (366 words)

	ModemScan Wardialer Home
		To use a cracking tool, a program that calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or telecommunications systems).
		Other wardialers (war dialers) are difficult to configure, hard to schedule over multiple days, and usually leave you sifting through hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of irrelevant data in a plain text file.
		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.
	wardial.net /default.html (374 words)

	Legal Affairs
		The term, Ryan explains, is a descendant of "wardialing," a 1980s hacker pastime in which modem-equipped computers were programmed to cold-call thousands of numbers.
		Ryan correctly argues that most forms of wardialing are legal, since the perpetrators usually only record and post information that is freely available without cracking any passwords or circumventing other security measures.
		For one, wardriving differs from wardialing in that the end user of the information is likely to be an average Joe.
	www.legalaffairs.org /issues/May-June-2005/review_koerner_mayjun05.msp (1400 words)

	Win the War on Wardialing
		System admins rarely secure dial-in ports as well as they do their corporate firewalls; yet anyone with a computer, a modem, and wardialing software could very well compromise your network via your PBX system.
		A mainstay hacking method since the 70's, Wardialing (also known as phreaking) is a method of attack that allows a hacker to circumvent a company's firewall by accessing the system through an open PSTN-related network connection.
		The main goal of wardialing is to gain illicit access to your PBX system, either to tap into the corporate network, access free long distance, use the anonymous connection to further hack into another system, or to tie up the PBX system and slow down a company's response time during an...
	www.technologynews.net /ITA/Research%20Centers/Network%20Management/Telephony%20,-a-,%20VoIP/Win%20the%20War%20on%20Wardialing.aspx (241 words)

	Wardialing: Practical Advice to Understand Your Exposure from SystemExperts Corporation White Papers at Builder UK
		Wardialing: Practical Advice to Understand Your Exposure from SystemExperts Corporation White Papers at Builder UK Builder UK
		"Wardialing" is the automated process hackers use to find computers accessible via telephone lines.
		This white paper explores the tools and a technique commonly used by hackers, identifies ways to recognize the signatures such tools leave behind, and recommends practical measures which can taken to reduce the exposure from wardialing attack.
	uk.builder.com /whitepapers/0,39026692,60028454p-39000786q,00.htm (136 words)

	Wardialer Goes Corporate
		Wardialing was made popular in the 1983 film,
		A standard for crackers, the software programs dial telephone numbers and search for open connections that might serve as entry points to computer or telecommunications systems.
		"[Wardialing] remains one of the best ways to bypass a properly deployed firewall," said Brian Martin, senior security engineer for penetration-assessment consultants RSI.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/1,15483-0.html (539 words)

	WarDialing [Archive] - DEFCON Forums
		WarDialing is quite dated, however, from experience still present a path of least resistance.
		Also, as relates to wardialing: wardialing is not dated.
		Conventional wardialing is dead, I work for a government agency.
	forum.defcon.org /archive/index.php/t-2602.html (1354 words)

	J!NX Forums - WARDIALING: NOT DEAD
		Posted - 02/13/2006 : 4:28:58 PM It seems there are a lot of people who think wardialing is dead, and that its applications today are useless.
		If one had to pull off a big hack on a big target wardialing should be top on priority.
		So I DO know a great deal about Wardialing and do thoroughly agree it should be tried first.
	www.jinxhackwear.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46029 (675 words)

	J!NX Forums
		Posted - 07/22/2004 : 8:05:40 PM I think wardialing is dying because people are switching to online services instead of services that listen over the modems.
		I know my dad switched from an old version of pcanywhere that did listen from the modem to a newer version that he uses over the internet.
		Posted - 07/22/2004 : 5:59:46 PM I don't have any personal experience, but I was reading in 2600 (Spring 2004) about a wardialing app for a palm.
	www.jinx.com /forum/post.asp?method=TopicQuote&TOPIC_ID=9791&FORUM_ID=9 (407 words)

	Wardialing, not caller ID -- Justin James's comment on "Bank of America remedies "caught on tape" customer service ...
		Wardialing, not caller ID -- Justin James's comment on "Bank of America remedies "caught on tape" customer service problem"
		Wardialing, not caller ID "I often wondered how some telemarketers were getting my unlisted phone numbers.
		Actually, they usually just wardial on you (calling random numebrs to see what picks up).
	talkback.zdnet.com /5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=23989&messageID=451004&start=-1 (342 words)

	Securing Linux and UNIX Systems in the Real World > Protecting Network and Modem Access (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strategies from making wardialing attempts to find your modems difficult to preventing intruders bridging into your internal networks to get at unprotected systems are covered.
		Wardialing means dialing a large number of phone numbers in sequence to determine which ones have modems attached.
		Frequently, the wardialing software can analyze the type of system that answered by the login prompt.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=31946&seqNum=9 (231 words)

	Infosecwriters.com
		The term “war”, which is used in Wardriving, Warchalking etc., was taken from the old days of WarDialing.
		WarDialing, the hacking practice of phoning up every extension of a phone network until the number associated with a modem is hit upon, has been replaced by WarDriving with the introduction of wireless LANS.
		Wardriving is the first and well known method used to find available wireless networks (means unsecured).
	infosecwriters.com /texts.php?op=display&id=55 (833 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you watch a wardialing session you will see that it seperatly dials each number and tells you whats happening on screen.
		It will tell you when it finds anything interesting such as a gasp Tone, a Carrier or a Voice and it also appends the results to the log file so you can remember the numbers of interesting stuff and go back and play with them later.
		First of all you will NEED a copy of ToneLoc (the wardialer I am recommending) http://www.linenoise.org/philez/wardialers/tl110.zip Now that you have started Wardialing in the UK, how about sharing some of your findings or finding people who may help you on your quests and related projects.
	dtmf.org /~hybrid/files/uk/wardialu.txt (491 words)

	Mailing List: Wardialing (was USR Sportster Voice 56 x2) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If I understand the concept properly, wardialing is not something you'd want to help.
		There was a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose CA) describing easily found computer security lapses in the Silicon Valley.
		Perhaps you can suggest a vgetty configuration that delivers a lethal shock to the modem owner.
	www.elilabs.com /mgarc/02-98/archive/0212.html (258 words)

	Smart Computing Dictionary Entry - wardialing
		Wardialing is the process of searching for telephone numbers connected to a modem.
		Wardialing uses special software to dial a block of telephone numbers at random.
		If it connects to a modem, the number is recorded for a possible future attack.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=8CF5E5CB35CB42E1857F6F42970E2A2C&searchtype=1&DicID=14253&RefType=Dictionary (62 words)

	DoC Informational Literatures
		Results of over two years of wardialing in the BayArea demonstrating that security weakness are still common viable threat.
		Presented is an an overview of a four year effort in massive multi-modem wardialing.
		This research was started it was noted that there were no published research references to wardialing or documented statistical results of the types of equipment and computer networks commonly found on the POTS (Plain old telephone system) network.
	www.dis.org /filez (1310 words)

	SSRN-War, Peace, or Stalemate: Wargames, Wardialing, Wardriving, and the Emerging Market for Hacker Ethics by Patrick ...
		Such guidelines are available in various proposal-stage forms, and this article will review these ethics within the context of a larger movement among hackers to develop a coherent ethical code.
		Keywords: Wardriving, war driving, wardialing, phreaking, wargames, war games, hacker, wifi, wi-fi, warchalking, wireless hacking, wireless manifesto, kevin mitnick
		Ryan, Patrick S., "War, Peace, or Stalemate: Wargames, Wardialing, Wardriving, and the Emerging Market for Hacker Ethics".
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=585867 (487 words)

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