Hacking Vespia’s
So I’m sitting in my local Vespia’s waiting to get my tire fixed. I have come from work so I had my laptop ready to start “working” on things. For grins and giggles I figured I’d try to connect to the network using my wifi connection. To my surprise a “WLAN” popped up with a 2/4 signal strength.
I tried to track down my IP address. 66.155.149.101 happened to show up. Doing a look-up on this shows that the IP is owned by PAETEC Communications. Is this something that Vespia’s is running or is from another store nearby? According to their site:
PAETEC can also help you reduce costs by combining your voice and data networks. Reduce the number of lines by migrating to Voice over IP and get more bandwidth to your location at the same time. Our MPLS VPN product also supports video, so you can conduct conferences and train new employees when needed without having to travel.
Could Vespia’s be using this company to handle their retail traffic and customer base? How easy would it be for someone to hop on the wireless network and get into the internal network complete with name, addresses, and telephone number, and credit card numbers?
We’ll have to wait until next time, my car’s done.