Singapore, May 20, 2008 -- ThinkSECURE Pte Ltd (
www.securitystartshere.org) today announced the official public release of MoocherHunter™, ThinkSECURE's free-for-end-user-use real-time WiFi moocher/hacker tracking tool.
"We developed MoocherHunter™ 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, MoocherHunter™ 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 MoocherHunter™ and a directional antenna was able to isolate and geographically locate, with an average accuracy of under 2 meters, 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 MoocherHunter™, 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 MoocherHunter™ 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. MoocherHunter™ is available as part of our free-to-use OSWA-Assistant™ 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.
MoocherHunter™ is available in the latest release of the OSWA-Assistant™, 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 .
For more details or if you are are a law-enforcement official or anyone who wants formal training on how to effectively deploy and use MoocherHunter™, please visit
http://moocherhunter.securitystartshere.org ."
