My internet was BUGGED - Man in the Middle Attack

[Piling]

Are you sure that BT people are competent ?

[Anthea]

Are you sure that BT people are competent ?

Simple answer

NO

But in England there is very little choice of braodband suppliers - it is either Virgin or BT and there is no Virgin where I live - we have only recently had fibre-optic cabling installed

[Anthea]

Sunday night I kept losing the signal and around 1am it went off and did not come back

As you see it has returned but could go again any time

[Anthea]

Man-in-the-middle attacks

I was subject to an attempted man-in-the-middle attack (MitM) but when I asked for advice not one person on here knew what was happening - I knew someone was interfering with my connection - I have just found a couple of lovely photos to show what was happening to my connection:



To protect myself from such attacks I use end-to-end email encryption.



This notice generally means that someone is at risk if a man-in-the-middle attack

I wonder how many people on here have a man-in-the-middle in their system - and do not have the security to alert them

[Anthea]

Unbelievably my internet still keeps going down - this must be costing BT a fortune in engineers - and I now have so many levels of encryption on some of my computers that it is hard for me to remember all the different passwords

[Piling]

Perhaps someone tries to use your internet connection to download illegal things ?

[Anthea]

Perhaps someone tries to use your internet connection to download illegal things ?

Not possible from my side - my computers have wired connections - remember if it is in the air it is everywhere

I cannot use one of my net-books at home because it keeps trying to connect through all my neighbours unlocked wireless sites - I am very tempted to connect and see what they are doing

[talsor]

There are three elements to your problem .

Your Internet provider
Your computer
YOU

If you are tech savvy check your established connections in the command prompt using netstat -ano and compare it to the processes in your task manager and make sure your PID is checked , otherwise do one of the following .

1-Change your service provider
2-Change your computer or do a clean installation of the OS
3-Have an ECT done

Personally , I would go with step number 2 .

[Anthea]

@ talsor"]

Thank you for you advice

1-Change your service provider
There is only ONE wired internet provider in my area and that is BT

2-Change your computer or do a clean installation of the OS
I have more than one computer - all have extremely high levels of encryption - I even reduced the encryption on one of them in case my security was causing a problem but it made no difference

Mostly I use Mint but sometimes Suse - Fedora - Debian - Mageia I was a Red Hat purist who went on to Mandriva - NOT Ubuntu - tails for added security Mint 12 was the best training distro - Maya is best for laptops

3-Have an ECT done
My problems started when I agreed to help a Kurdish political activist

[talsor]

@ talsor"]

Thank you for you advice

1-Change your service provider
There is only ONE wired internet provider in my area and that is BT

2-Change your computer or do a clean installation of the OS
I have more than one computer - all have extremely high levels of encryption - I even reduced the encryption on one of them in case my security was causing a problem but it made no difference

Mostly I use Mint but sometimes Suse - Fedora - Debian - Mageia I was a Red Hat purist who went on to Mandriva - NOT Ubuntu - tails for added security Mint 12 was the best training distro - Maya is best for laptops

The whole point of the above exercise is to pinpoint where your problem is and I believe it is your hardware at home . OK , Barrow a computer from a friend and establish a direct connection with your internet using your modem ALONE and see if you are gonna have the same problem . if you still experience the problem then it is your service provider and If you don't then it is your hardware (two birds with one stone )

once you established that it is your hardware then build your network in stages and tested in every stage and see where does it fails .

3-Have an ECT done
My problems started when I agreed to help a Kurdish political activist

Do not worry Anthea , Many Generations died before us and they could not solve the Kurdish problem . Considering the progress being made I think we are doing just fine .

[Anthea]

The whole point of the above exercise is to pinpoint where your problem is and I believe it is your hardware at home . OK , Barrow a computer from a friend and establish a direct connection with your internet using your modem ALONE and see if you are gonna have the same problem . if you still experience the problem then it is your service provider and If you don't then it is your hardware (two birds with one stone) once you established that it is your hardware then build your network in stages and tested in every stage and see where does it fails

A BT engineer has come and tested their equipment using an assortment of routers and modems - made no difference - I have tested my system with an assortment of routers and modems that I have - definitely not my connection

I have several computers - makes no difference - my problem started over 4 weeks ago and my broadband has been more off than on ever since