MAC laptop is picking up other companies domains...security problem?

[skhoury]

Hello all,

I am a complete newbie to macs, so forgive me for any stupid questions...here is the scene:

We have a Windows 2K3 domain/dns and a wireless network running around it.

Our designers use macs - so one of our designers brought their own laptop in to use, connected it to our wireless network and did a scan of items on the network (using a presumably standard tool in macosx).

suddenly, over 100 different domains popped up! Ours, and several others.

On his desktop mac - non of this data showed up, but on the wireless it did.

The network is secured to by the way.

Any thoughts? Do we have a security breach?

Thanks,

Sam

 

[jmgalvin]

If you have faith in your system, you're probably ok. Could he see any files and could he access them?

There's absolutely no difference between mac wireless and pc wireless. That means that anything he picked up could be picked up by others.

Probably all these others have no security and that's why he picked them up.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[pentode]

Must have a nice antenna on that Mac

As long as you have WEP/WPA running on your wireless access points, I wouldn't call it a breach. But you can set your router to not "advertise" its SSID and the it shouldn't show up. The Mac is no more capable of breaching security than a Windows box.

But maybe what you saw was all of the wireless A/Ps that the laptop had **ever** found.

 

[skhoury]

Hey guys - galvin: No, it couldnt access the others. It just sort of timed out really. On the flip side, it could access our own network resources.

pentode: We are running encryption on our network (lets hope it hasn't been cracked!)

Perhaps its just time to change our access key?