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Originally posted by macman
Go to a 16 digit password, using uppercase, lowercase, letters, numbers and special characters.
Originally posted by macman
Originally posted by ophis
Simply setup password which will look something like that:
"This Is My Super S3cret P4ssword 4nd No 1 Will Ever H4ck It"
Good look brute forcing it.... 100 000 years.
No Special Characters????
A good old packet capture as you first sign on could negate that.
Given you have the right tools and training.
Originally posted by ophis
Originally posted by macman
Originally posted by ophis
Simply setup password which will look something like that:
"This Is My Super S3cret P4ssword 4nd No 1 Will Ever H4ck It"
Good look brute forcing it.... 100 000 years.
No Special Characters????
A good old packet capture as you first sign on could negate that.
Given you have the right tools and training.
SPACE (empty) is threated as a special character.
Originally posted by grey580
This is assuming you use WPS.
I never use it.
And assuming also that it gets turned off when you use manual mode.
This isn't a problem.
Just go into the router and use the manual setting.
Originally posted by EyesII
To _R4t_ or anyone else that can answer.
How is it that Verizon FIOS's crappy router can be updated (firmware and password) by Verizon without ever stepping foot in my home?
How do they do that? By accessing my router behind my back, I suspect they can actually see my network as well. How do I block their access (to router and network)?
I realize that my inquires are not specifically about wireless issues, but they do refer to security on a router so it is partly on-topic.
-E2edit on 30-12-2011 by EyesII because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by brill
Originally posted by EyesII
To _R4t_ or anyone else that can answer.
How is it that Verizon FIOS's crappy router can be updated (firmware and password) by Verizon without ever stepping foot in my home?
How do they do that? By accessing my router behind my back, I suspect they can actually see my network as well. How do I block their access (to router and network)?
I realize that my inquires are not specifically about wireless issues, but they do refer to security on a router so it is partly on-topic.
-E2edit on 30-12-2011 by EyesII because: (no reason given)
If it's their gear then sure they'd have access. Just stick another router between their network and yours or put up a firewall to protect your private network.
brill
Originally posted by brill
Originally posted by EyesII
To _R4t_ or anyone else that can answer.
How is it that Verizon FIOS's crappy router can be updated (firmware and password) by Verizon without ever stepping foot in my home?
How do they do that? By accessing my router behind my back, I suspect they can actually see my network as well. How do I block their access (to router and network)?
I realize that my inquires are not specifically about wireless issues, but they do refer to security on a router so it is partly on-topic.
-E2edit on 30-12-2011 by EyesII because: (no reason given)
If it's their gear then sure they'd have access. Just stick another router between their network and yours or put up a firewall to protect your private network.
brill
Originally posted by EyesII
How is it that Verizon FIOS's crappy router can be updated (firmware and password) by Verizon without ever stepping foot in my home?
How do they do that? By accessing my router behind my back, I suspect they can actually see my network as well.
Originally posted by EyesII
Guys:
You are the best. Thanks for answering my inquiry.
I feel much better knowing that Verizon has a limited access ability to my router - and not a fully opened back-door into my home network. There is no Big Brother watching little old me (or is he?).
I presently have the crappy FIOS router in front (mandatory to watch TV and to use their DVR), and behind that, I have a Sonicwall TX-100. I forward certain ports to the Sonicwall from the FIOS router which allows me to host FTP and Web sites from home. (I need to use DDNS since I don't have a static IP. DDNS is set-up on the FIOS router.)
My internal network (a few W2003 Servers, many PC's and laptops, ipads, Zune, Xbox, etc) are all fed by the Sonicwall and so far everything has been okay. (Yes I am crazy to have all of this at my house.)
The Sonicwall was hard to configure at first, but once you understand how it works, it made sense and is now easier to program. It is not as easy as a Linksys, but I don't think the standard Linksys (wireless) is on par with the Sonicwall.
So by having the Sonicwall behind the FIOS router, I think I also have the capability to set up the FIOS router to be a dummy (decoy) wireless router, but I am not sure if that concept is being implemented properly. I just don't know. I think I have to turn on SSID on the FIOS router, and leave it off on my Sonicwall. I could put MAC filtering on the FIOS router and only have the Sonicwall's MAC address set up. I think that will work to block other MAC addresses from entering past the Sonicwall.
FYI, my 12 year old son has already hacked out our two neigbor's wireless routers. I had to tell them to change the SSID and to not broadcast it. They were also told to implement a stronger password. My son also learned how to bypass the filters I implemented on the Sonicwall. He simply plugs a CAT5e wire into the FIOS router and he is done. Time to relocate the FIOS router so he can't access it or get rid of any extra cat wires.
Kids these days..... At least he is not on Xbox all day.
You guys all know your stuff and I do thank you very much for answering my inquiry.
-E2
edit on 30-12-2011 by EyesII because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by _R4t_
The scary part is he did this in the mid 80's and the CIA have been working on his theory ever since... which makes you believe if its even worth to lose time securing your computer when the CIA likely by now have the capability to watch your computer screen half a mile away.
Originally posted by EyesII
Originally posted by _R4t_
The scary part is he did this in the mid 80's and the CIA have been working on his theory ever since... which makes you believe if its even worth to lose time securing your computer when the CIA likely by now have the capability to watch your computer screen half a mile away.
I hear ya. That is scary.
I'm not worried about Gvmt. I am worried about my kids on the net and about others that may want to "tap" into my network to piggy back illegal activity, or grab use of one or more of my terminals to become a drone for some DOS attack somewhere. I also want my wife to do her online shopping as securely as possible, (and as little as possible - still working on this one - lol).
I wonder what would happen if I placed a microwave oven directed at the observer and put it on high for a minute with the door open. Maybe they could visualize the inside of the oven to see what I'm cooking/reheating for dinner?
A long time ago, we had a recently fired employee come to our office at night and park in the lot. He tapped into the network via a wireless router that he installed in an unobvious area on the network. He was the former IT guy at the time.
He would remote to the Novell Server using VNC and reformat the drives at least once a week. Drove us mad for a while until we were able to figure it out. His car in the parking lot was observed via security camera and a tape was provided to the Police. We eventually found the wireless router and unplugged it. His actions eventually came to an end. Not sure what happened on the Police end.
I'm not worried because CRT's are a thing of the past. I do like high-end CRT's more than LCD's, but LCD's have taken over the field. I would think the electronic radiation from an LCD is vastly less than from a CRT. CRT's have electron guns aimed at the screen from the back. You are seeing a phospher glow due to the beam refreshing the screen. It refreshes 60 times a second, or a multiple of that. LCD's use a different tech and no electron gun is used.
Additionally I have so much other crap running next to my screens that capturing anything via EM tech would be nothing but jumble anyway.
Now if a heat-detecting (infra-red) device were used to see my screens... That would be a whole other story. Although, I'm sure that any image they could secure from me would be mush. Why? Because I would be present in front of the screen. I presume I give off an over-whelming heat-signature - larger than the LCD's siggy. BTW - I always turn off the monitor (not the PC) when I walk away.
Another security problem is the capture of data off a frozen memory chip. That has been proven to be a security problem on laptops and desktops. A minimal risk, but one none-the-less.
Bottom line - Govt can watch all they want, They will get board because I have nothing to hide and am not doing anything (to my knowledge) that is illegal. While they are busy watching me, a real person of interest is going unwatched. Dummy's!
Wim Van Eck must have been from the TRaSh-80, C64, Atari-800, and Apple II+ days. A time when the CRT was big, heavy and not well matured yet. Although LCD's use less electricity, they still use a form of radiation to work. You see light, instead of the glow of phospher from an electron beam hitting it. Eitherway, I assume they are both detectable - just at different sides of the spectrum.
-E2
Originally posted by BMorris
Theres no such thing as a secure wifi, at all. They can all be broken into by someone willing to put the time, money and resources into it.
Originally posted by ANNED
Originally posted by BMorris
Theres no such thing as a secure wifi, at all. They can all be broken into by someone willing to put the time, money and resources into it.
Yes there is.
I run a home LAN(HARD WIRED system) and if i am on the road i can leave my home computer on and if i want to use my laptop safely i just connect through Wifi straight to my home computer and from it to the internet(relay function)
Between my laptop and my home computer i can use any of a number of encryption programs to encrypt this link and my home computer will relay my data decrypted to the internet by hard cable.
Only the NSA might break the encryption. but not a hacker.
en.wikipedia.org...
For someone tapping the Wifi link all they get is encrypted garbage.
I can tap a open Wifi from a mile away with the right antenna.
www.amazon.com...=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_1
The fact that someone leaves there system weak and open to hacking is no problem for the hacker.
Before you had to drive around(war driving) to find a open Wifi now you just park and scan for systems within range.
I have one of these antenna so i can use a local Starbucks near my motel as a hot spot from my room.
Sometimes i find better connections over someones home system without them knowing. Starbucks tends to lower there power to keep down on parking lot surfers.
By the way its not impossible to hack cable and read data from hard wired systems.
Someone hacked my cable provider about 2 months ago and we had a lot if weird things going on and people were scanning there computers looking for a virus on there computer when the problem was with the cable company system.edit on 1-1-2012 by ANNED because: (no reason given)edit on 1-1-2012 by ANNED because: (no reason given)