WIFI Hacked

safe option would be to turn off when not in use. especially if not going to be house for few days/weeks.

takes few minutes to turn on again but not that much longer than booting pc up.

please dont say WEP. WEP isnt secure at all.

WEP = unsecure!

/end rant

FusionNet wrote: »

Tea bag,

Yes WEP = 2 min hack. Wep is the most unsecure of the lot. As the guys say on a basic home system wpa and mac address is as good as you can do. Ive known of systems hacked where there is a team of people to keep hackers out and they did tests on the system and the hackers beat them..!

The thing about broadband security is. If Im a hacker and I want free wifi, Im going to go for the unsecured or least secured first. Its like in my business. If I have two premises, one customers gets CCTV from me the other decides not to, a potential thief will use the easier option, the one without security..

Yeah i fully understand that WEP is pretty secure when there are easier paths via unsecured hosts, but ive only ever come across 2 unsecured residential networks, which were mac address entry, which is also not fool proof.

my point is that most people understand that if they dont want people using their BB or going through their personal data, they have to secure it, and encrypt it with WEP.

but when i search for networks and most are WPA/WPA2, but a few WEP, Ill automatically go for the WEP guy, and gaining access is so easy even my little brother can do it, and his entire knowlege base of his brain is stored on google.

(i by no means think its ok to jump peoples private networks, and only have done so when i really needed to check an email or something trivial, but kindly leave a message to them to please call their ISP to talk them through making it more secure.)

i dont agree fully that all networks should be locked up though.

if you're running a high speed BB, 10mbps+, i think its really great that some people are willing to break it in 2 and leave 1 unsecured and call it like "free wifi" or something similar, but limit it to maybe 1mbps, just for casual web bowsing and emailing etc.
Wouldnt it be a better world if the government didnt have to fund hotspots but that people would share 10% of their capacity BB. you dont even notice the missing speed with higher end BB packages.

FusionNet wrote: »

Thats what they do in the UK. Say for example you have an apartment block with 20 apartments. Instead of having 20 different lines going in and everyone having accounts they put in 5 good feeds say 24mb down with a low contention. Then thouse five residents share out half of that broadband and the neighbours pay less to BT but use only wirless. Its a win win really, well unless the guy with the broadband doesnt pay his electric bill!!

yeah thats fantastic!!

except if some Aholes mess with the QOS feature..

Netstumbler is an asset though, don't discount it!

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If it is long term downloading, have you had a look at your router logs? It has to be someone local, a wardriver typically will only hit and run moderate sized files, if you have Eircom and they want something big, they'd have had to sit on your connection for days..

Just check for email logins, any kind of activity.. see if they've connected to any email services using non https access, Yahoo and some situations with Google are very much visible, still.

If you know who it is, challenge them, if they've made an effort to actively disable or circumvent WEP encryption, you have every right to prosecute.

The data use is trivial, the risk of umm.. 'misrepresentation' and say.. being made accountable for someone else's interest in child models and associated illegal muck, is not.

Also, make sure your network doesn't have shares open, two of my neighbours who were fairly clueless about PC's had their drives accessible, read and write.. A short example of transferring a single .jpg to their hard drive got them to change their habits quickly.

im gonna sound like a bit of a gob****e asking this one, but i cant seem to do it and need a hand! i have had eircom wifi for a while now, cant seem to put a password of anytype on it! connection has gone very slow, and i am near 100% sure people round the area are using it! could anyone give us a hand and tell me how to secure it?

Cheers