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Router wireless Security
ChiefGrasscutter
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Anyone with sufficient technical & security knowledge feel like commenting on this
thread in the Banking & Budgeting forum.....
Post No 10 in
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2975830
Claims of "my mate got some prog of the web that can get into wireless secure networks by interrogating the wireless router, analysing the answers from which they/the prog can work out the wireless key".....
More interweb forum b***lcks or some degree of truth depending on what level of security the wireless is set to?
thread in the Banking & Budgeting forum.....
Post No 10 in
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2975830
Claims of "my mate got some prog of the web that can get into wireless secure networks by interrogating the wireless router, analysing the answers from which they/the prog can work out the wireless key".....
More interweb forum b***lcks or some degree of truth depending on what level of security the wireless is set to?
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a lot would depend on password strength / and level of encryption /BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!
THE KILLERS :cool:
THE PUNISHER :dance: MATURE CHEDDAR ADDICT:cool:0 -
Yup it can be done against WEP secured networks in a matter of minutes, no matter the network key complexity (I've done it before following some simple instruction on youtube).
Plus simple WPA-PSK network keys can be cracked in a few minutes using an Amazon E2 cloud service. The length of time goes up if using a long, complex network key but with that amount of power available to crack it then it's not unachievable.0 -
He must be using a netbook ( he quotes "a matter of hours to hack in") My desire mobi can hack into a Thomson router in minutes , unless of course the owner has changed to WPA2 and the password from default, then it takes seconds ..... I ring up the neighbour and ask him what it is:rotfl::rotfl:4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed 5.07 + Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
CEC Email energyclub@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Yes it is possible to hack WiFi and the means of doing so are but a quick google search away.
That said there really is little need to - plenty of wireless routers are left completely open anyway though ignorance. If you have an Android phone install WarDrive and take a walk around your neighbourhood with it running - a real eye opener.0 -
kwikbreaks wrote: »Yes it is possible to hack WiFi and the means of doing so are but a quick google search away.
That said there really is little need to - plenty of wireless routers are left completely open anyway though ignorance. If you have an Android phone install WarDrive and take a walk around your neighbourhood with it running - a real eye opener.
As if anyone would / wood (as in "If you go down to the woods .... etc" :rotfl::rotfl:4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed 5.07 + Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
CEC Email energyclub@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Cheers. Hadn't seen this. Not available to the public yet, but I'm sure a clone'll show up somewhere in the next few months.mr_fishbulb wrote: »Plus simple WPA-PSK network keys can be cracked in a few minutes using an Amazon E2 cloud service. The length of time goes up if using a long, complex network key but with that amount of power available to crack it then it's not unachievable.
13gb wordlist available though...could be worth checking your own wireless password against it just in case..0 -
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