HD Moore USES War dialing
HD used war dialing to find computers accepting inbound connections.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 114 Details
“he started dialing random numbers to see if any would be picked up by a computer.”
Technique
technique:war_dialing
Also: dialing random numbers, war-dialing
Automatically dialing ranges of telephone numbers to discover systems or computers that answer.
Scanning telephone numbers for computers accepting inbound modem connections.
“I was running ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code”
Automatically dialing ranges of telephone numbers to discover systems or computers that answer.
“The earlier days, there was a lot of this curious exploration because we would war dial”
Repeatedly dialing telephone numbers to find computers or modems that answer.
“What Paul liked doing was war dialing. He’d just dial phone number after phone number to see if there was a computer on the other end”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | USES | HD Moore | Explicit | 114 |
| incoming | USES | Renegade Legion | Explicit | 155 |
| incoming | USES | Paul Stira | Explicit | 168 |
HD Moore USES War dialing
HD used war dialing to find computers accepting inbound connections.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 114 Details
“he started dialing random numbers to see if any would be picked up by a computer.”
Renegade Legion USES War dialing
Joe describes the group’s earlier exploratory activity as war dialing.
Explicit Confidence 91% · Joe Grand EP 155 Details
“The earlier days, there was a lot of this curious exploration because we would war dial.”
Paul Stira USES War dialing
Paul Stira used war dialing to call phone numbers looking for computers that answered.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 168 Details
“What Paul liked doing was war dialing. He’d just dial phone number after phone number to see if there was a computer on the other end that would pick up.”