Press Release Summary: ThinkSECURE (www.securitystartshere.org) today officially released a new tool called MoocherHunterT to help law enforcement and wireless network owners hunt down wireless hackers and moochers in real time.
Press Release Body: Singapore, May 20, 2008 -- ThinkSECURE Pte Ltd (www.securitystartshere.org) today announced the official public launch of MoocherHunterT, ThinkSECURE\'s free-for-end-user real-time wifi moocher/hacker tracking tool.
\"We developed MoocherHunterT with two key purposes in mind: first, to assist law-enforcement officers in hunting down unauthorized wifi users in real time, and second, to enable any owner of an 802.11-based wireless access point to identify whether an unauthorized person is using their access point and give them that same capability to hunt down those unauthorized users,\" said Mr. Julian Ho, ThinkSECURE\'s co-founder.
Completely designed from the ground up with purely in-house code, MoocherHunterT was first demonstrated to ASEAN, Interpol and S.E.Asian law-enforcement officers during a closed-door, invitation-only workshop hosted by the Singapore Police Force in early 2008.
During developmental field tests in March 2008, a single ThinkSECURE employee armed with MoocherHunterT and a directional antenna was able to isolate and geographically locate the physical position of a wireless moocher associated with a test access point across different multi-storied-multi-tenanted residential and office environments within an average of 30 minutes of initial detection.
\"With MoocherHunterT, the physical disconnect between the wireless network infrastructure and the wireless moocher or hacker, which has been used by various individuals as a shield to mask illicit activities involving wireless networks such as warez-downloading, illegal-file-sharing, seditious forum postings and so on, is no longer a defence,\" said Mr. Ho.
\"Our approach in designing MoocherHunterT rectifies the weaknesses inherent in previous attempts to address geo-location of unauthorized wireless users which relied on static-positioned access points or expensive commercial handheld PDA devices with ineffective non-directional antennae. MoocherHunterT is available as part of our free-to-use OSWA-AssistantT wireless auditing and penetration-testing toolkit which can be used on a user\'s existing laptop...and free is always a good value proposition,\" Mr. Ho added.
MoocherHunterT is available in the latest release of the OSWA-AssistantT, ThinkSECURE Pte Ltd\'s free-for-download wireless auditing and penetration-testing liveCD toolkit. The toolkit can be downloaded from http://oswa-assistant.securitystartshere.org.
Law-enforcement officials or anyone who wants formal training on how to effectively use MoocherHunterT can contact ThinkSECURE Pte Ltd regarding attending the Organizational Systems Wireless AuditorT (OSWA) certification programme, which has a hands-on training module on the use of MoocherHunterT.
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