Router may have been hacked in to.

fitshase

JasX wrote: »

Also worth noting both WPA and WPA2 can be easily bypassed. even tho WPA2-AES has not 'techincally' been cracked if we're being pedantic being 'cracked' only means there is a way of working out your password thats faster/more efficient than a plain brute force password guessing attack. With most people using simple/dictionary word based passswords brute force software really doesn't take long to get on whatever security is in place if you're really trying.

That's why the first thing I do when I set up a router is to open Notepad, close my eyes and randomly press keys on the keyboard to generate the encryption key. Copy and paste the key from Notepad to the router and you're done. You normally end up with a key like:-

#';as#f';s#gtl;eql4#'5l339t0j4t09jf4f9jq4f][lfal'se;ld

hubert_cumberdale

a wep key can be easily obtained its quite common you just need the older style wireless card in your laptops or a mac

i would just change your router login and your wep to something else and then keep an eye on the lights

jayme1

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

a wep key can be easily obtained its quite common you just need the older style wireless card in your laptops or a mac

i would just change your router login and your wep to something else and then keep an eye on the lights

you mean WPA2? not WEP yeah? (as in use WPA2 not WEP, you are right about the WEP being easily hacked)

hubert_cumberdale

im sure they can all be grabbed easily

there used to be a peice of software that you could use to grab packets from the wifi broadcasts and it can get the key from that think it was called airsnort

jayme1

yes you can grab packets from all wireless transmissions but it is only WEP you can use them to get the passcode, with WPA2 you just get a load of encrypted data with no way to decode it or anyway to work out the PSK, (besides brute force or if the PSK is password, something random like fitshase said is totally unhackable at the current time if using WPA2)