Is Your Wireless Network Secure?

stuartk

Pssst wrote: »

Keep it connected. One of us will do it remotely for you

be careful changing the settings on the router remotely as it will kick all wifi clients off including the remote session. better to cable in a LAN cable from a pc to router then do a remote. setup security and clients and then remove the cable.

regards

mardatha

Oh god am sorry I started all this !! HEADACHE !!!!

Pssst

mardatha wrote: »

Oh god am sorry I started all this !! HEADACHE !!!!

Dont worry,its just Geekspeak. Its really quite simple from a user point of view.

chico

Hi Stuart

Can you please give me some advice on the above topics.

My Netgear router allows scheduling of service blocking by only one time period per day, so presumably a start blocking time of 1800, and end blocking of 0900 allows access between 9 am and 6 pm each day. Do you know of any way of scheduling more than one block period per day, for example to allow access for several periods per day, say from 0900-1000, 1300-1400, and 1700-1800?

Regarding UPnP (universal plug and play), is it safer to disable UPnP, and are there devices that need UPnP in order to work?

Thanks.

Strider590

No Wireless network is 100% secure, I know of software that intercepts data packets on wireless networks and reconstructs your WEP/WPA key within 24 hours. Couple that with MAC address masking and well.....
It's really rare that anyone would do this, but just be really, really careful what your sharing on your PC.

Jaffa.

Strider590 wrote: »

No Wireless network is 100% secure, I know of software that intercepts data packets on wireless networks and reconstructs your WEP/WPA key within 24 hours. Couple that with MAC address masking and well.....
It's really rare that anyone would do this, but just be really, really careful what your sharing on your PC.

Even with WPA2?

Strider590

Jaffa. wrote: »

Even with WPA2?

AFAIK

Got buddies who do this kinda thing for "government organisations".

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

No Wireless network is 100% secure, I know of software that intercepts data packets on wireless networks and reconstructs your WEP/WPA key within 24 hours. Couple that with MAC address masking and well.....
It's really rare that anyone would do this, but just be really, really careful what your sharing on your PC.

The people who have the ability to do with this are generally interested in bigger targets than your holiday snaps and 2meg ADSL connection.

The ones that can't do this, well for them all they need to do is move on to someone else's less secure wireless network instead.