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My internet was BUGGED - Man in the Middle Attack

PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:10 pm
Author: Anthea
YES I am back :o)

My internet connection was BUGGED X(

Whoever it was could not gain access to my computer but my system told me that someone was trying to take control of my internet connection

Then my internet went down

It has taken BT well over a week to solve the problem and even the engineer who spent most of the morning with me - had NO idea what was wrong - he said that he had NEVER come across anything such as this before

First they thought the problem was my end

After a few days they thought the problem was in the exchange

But nobody could solve it

The engineer said he thought that I should go to the police

Cable was replaced

New connections were made throughout almost the entire length of my link

Then like magic it was back again

The engineer had no idea how it happened

BT phoned me to apologise that my connection was still down - they themselves did not realise my connection had returned - very odd

Whatever happened switched on my wireless connection - I NEVER use wireless for security reasons

HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD PROBLEMS?

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:45 pm
Author: Londoner
It was a serious hardware technical fault, which the engineer knew it but didn't tell you just to buy time until repaired. Police can not do anything about things like that. So there was no sense for him to tell to go to police.

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:03 am
Author: Shirko
Hhmmm, very interesting and it is almost unbelievable.

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:07 am
Author: Piling
I use wireless – like all IKP – and we had had no problems or if MIT and Iranian services are spying us they do it without causing troubles ;)


Perhaps you have been attacked by hackers from Grey Wolves or PKK.

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:05 pm
Author: Shirko
Piling wrote:I use wireless – like all IKP – and we had had no problems or if MIT and Iranian services are spying us they do it without causing troubles ;)


Perhaps you have been attacked by hackers from Grey Wolves or PKK.


=))

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:40 pm
Author: Anthea
My internet was only running for about an hour before in went again - it has only just come back this evening - it has taken an assortment of engineers more than a week to get it running - one of the engineers actually advised me to contact the police

Bellow are some of the messages my system gave me:

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to deleted by me but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely,
sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are
going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to
this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is
trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
…............................................................................................

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to deleted by me but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely,
sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are
going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

This site uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted.

What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to
this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is
trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
…..............................................................................................

If you understand what's going on, you
can tell Firefox to start trusting this site's identification.
Even if you trust the site, this error could mean that someone is
tampering with your connection.
Don't add an exception unless
you know there's a good reason why this site doesn't use trusted identification.

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:25 pm
Author: Piling
Did you try to connect with other navigator than firefox ?

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:21 pm
Author: Anthea
Piling wrote:Did you try to connect with other navigator than firefox ?

I did better than that - I used different computers as well as different browsers :o)

BT replaced several different parts of their system and checked everything - then it just came on - someone is messing with my internet X(

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:20 pm
Author: Londoner
This sounds as you have a virus on your computer but you used a different computer. But it doesn't make sense for BT not to know the fault. They must know the fault but why they pretend they don't. The fault could be because they are doing a major work on that line and because have not given advance warning they pretend they don't know to buy time.

Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:29 pm
Author: Anthea
Londoner wrote:This sounds as you have a virus on your computer but you used a different computer. But it doesn't make sense for BT not to know the fault. They must know the fault but why they pretend they don't. The fault could be because they are doing a major work on that line and because have not given advance warning they pretend they don't know to buy time.

VIRUS ON MY COMPUTER NEVER

I use Penguin Power

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Re: My internet was BUGGED has anyone else problems?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:44 pm
Author: Anthea
I was the ONLY person to have the fault

It lasted for about 10 days - giving me just over an hour online last Monday before it vanished again

Assorted teams replaced different parts and connectors all along the fibreoptic system

I have an assortment of desktops - laptops - netbooks - 9 at the last count - not one of them has ever had a virus :-B

Re: My internet was BUGGED - Happy Christmas

PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:07 pm
Author: Anthea
My Internet went down again this morning and has only just come back on so thought I would wish everyone

HAPPY CHRISTMAS :ymparty:

Before my system goes for good never more to return X(

Re: My internet was BUGGED - Happy Christmas

PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:35 pm
Author: Anthea
According to BT they have replaced almost everything along the entire length of my fibre-optic broadband connection :shock:

They are coming back tomorrow to try again - nobody has any idea where the fault is - or what is causing the fault

Is there anyone reading this who has any thoughts on what has happened to my broadband :-?

Re: My internet was BUGGED - Happy Christmas

PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:37 am
Author: Anthea
Saturday night I went out :ymparty:

I came back - no internet :ymsick:

It has just come back on again - I phoned BT and told them exactly what I though of them X(

Am I the only person here who has such problems?

Re: My internet was BUGGED - Happy Christmas

PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:04 pm
Author: Anthea
This evening my internet keeps crashing - time BT employed people with brains - I want my broadband working properly - I pay enough for it - this fibre-optic service with free phone calls to landlines cost me about £50 each month X(