Presentation Title: MoocherHunting: Real-Time Geo-Location of Moochers, Hackers and Unauthorized WiFi Users
Presentation Abstract:

With wireless networking so prevalent in modern societies, the ability of a person to tap into someone elses’ wireless network and use their internet connection for mischief is cause for concern. Terrorist communications, illegal file sharing, illegal software (warez) downloading, pornography trafficking - the list is growing larger and larger every day. Typically, getting the internet IP address of the exploited user’s wireless network gateway is the easy part - but how do you isolate, identify and track down where the moocher, hacker or unauthorized WiFi user is physically located in a high-density urban environment?

This presentation and practical demonstration will unveil MoocherHunter, our new free tool which we’ll be making available for free end-user use that law enforcement and other authorized parties can use to isolate and hunt down wireless perpetrators in real time, on-the-fly. MoocherHunter was first previewed and well-received at a closed-door, non-public session to Law Enforcement officials from ASEANOPOL,INTERPOL and S.E. Asian Police Forces in the Singapore Police Force-organized CyberCrime Investigation workshop (CCIW) 2008 held in April 2008.

About Julian

Co-founder of ThinkSECURE, Julian was previously responsible for security management of the public data network infrastructure at StarHub, a Singapore-based telco, and for design, implementation and maintenance of security and operations for AsiaPac’s largest hotspot deployments in 2002: StarHub’s Wireless Hotzones in Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre and Changi International Airport Terminals 1 & 2, totaling 100+ enterprise/carrier-class access points, routers, switches, SSGs and servers.

At ThinkSECURE, Julian developed and released the award-winning OSWA-Assistantâ„¢ (oswa-assistant.org), a specialized wireless auditing toolkit which assists IT professionals and organizations in testing and securing their WiFi , Bluetooth and RFID wireless deployments.

Julian was also the Co-Designer and GameMaster of the BlackOPS:HackAttack security tournament (blackops.securitystartshere.org) held in Singapore in 2004, and AIRRAID (airraid.securitystartshere.org), Asia’s first-ever true wireless hacking tournament, held in Singapore in 2005, and AIRRAID2 (airraid2.securitystartshere.org), Thailand’s first-ever public security tournament in 2008.