[SECURITY]

["Sachnoff, Neil" <NSachnoff () MIDDLESEXCC EDU>]

May raise CALEA compliance questions.

 

/Neil  

Neil S. Sachnoff, Executive Director, Information Technology
V-732.906.2601/Fax 732.548.6814 

 
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of HOGGATT, ANDY F.
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:27 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY]

 

Greetings,

 

I've recently conducted testing using a piece of software called
"Connectify".  This software allows a user to turn their wireless laptop
into a Wi-fi Hotspot.  The software creates virtual wireless interfaces
for its hosts and then utilizes NAT to make the connection appear as if
it's coming from the Hotspot instead of the connected hosts.    By doing
so a student is able to allow other students to piggy-back off their
wireless connection, with only the one device/user authenticated on our
student, wireless network.  When viewing the logs of our firewall,
connections appear, in regards to both I.P. address and MAC address, as
if the connections are originating from the Wifi-hotspot and not the
connected hosts.  I suspect that Internet tethering such as this may
become more prevalent as more smartphones begin to  incorporate this
functionally into their operating systems.  

 

Has anyone else received any other reports similar to this and has
anyone come up with a solution to help remedy the situation?  Any and
all feedback would be welcome.

 

Thank You, 

 

Andy Hoggatt

Ozarks Technical Community College

Interim Network Security Systems Administrator

hoggatta () otc edu

417.447.7535