wireless security / alert ?

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Originally Posted by incisor

hide the ssid and and use wpa and delete the bank of englands records from your pc... :P
paranoia is a marvellous thing.......

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Just to expand on that Inc. i hope everyone clears the internet cache after any passworded internet transactions? - Bank, ebay, paypal etc etc etc
I have found this useful, efficient, easy to use and free, (best price of all).
CrapCleaner

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Originally Posted by Dante

I have implemented some of the above, but the only thing which gives me piece of mind is VPN.
cracking the authentication is nearly impossible.

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Sorry to scare you but ................... VPN

Paranoid me? No I'm just worried about everything :D
Personally I don't really care about bandwith theft I get about 20GB that I never use up, then it's throttled not billed.
I just want to make sure no one decides to kill my registry or some other equally nice trick.

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I spoke to someone today about wireless, they assured me that an expert, (read as: local paper) came and set up the wireless network. "We can't connect to the neighbours internet anymore so our security must be very good." *** Ignorance is bliss. ***

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Originally Posted by HangOver

Just to expand on that Inc. i hope everyone clears the internet cache after any passworded internet transactions? - Bank, ebay, paypal etc etc etc
I have found this useful, efficient, easy to use and free, (best price of all).
CrapCleaner



Sorry to scare you but ................... VPN

Paranoid me? No I'm just worried about everything :D
Personally I don't really care about bandwith theft I get about 20GB that I never use up, then it's throttled not billed.
I just want to make sure no one decides to kill my registry or some other equally nice trick.

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Thread hijack
I spoke to someone today about wireless, they assured me that an expert, (read as: local paper) came and set up the wireless network. "We can't connect to the neighbours internet anymore so our security must be very good." *** Ignorance is bliss. ***

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I am not scared ... if I read the article talks about people using weak passwords. Don't really care about that, as the passwords must be strong and there is as well a black list.

In addition ... even if you have the password ... how likely is it that you have the certificate?

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Originally Posted by shorty943

I agree totally with Bytemark. Ditch the wireless, and disable it in the router. And please change the admin password for your router as well. ZDnet, Cnet, etc all report far to many security problems with wireless networking. It may be all the buzz, but, if you are a home user, like myself, the depth of security you need to go to for wireless is no fun at all.
My system is wired from router to a network hub, then wired out to the system from there. My router also has port scan reporting, so it tells me if someone is trying to knock on my door. With the internal IP tables firewalling, and all incoming ports blocked, I am as secure as a home user can be, for the time being at least.

Shorty

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Hey Shorty I only say ditch the wireless IF you are so paranoid that hidden SSID, WPA and Mac filtering combined are not enough on your home system...:p:p

Mark

:p :p :p :p :p

All their bases are belong to ME!

At last, my plan to take over the world is......

Nah, not that paranoid. Just cautious is all. Don't want my plans for world domination to fall into government hands. They'll only botch it all up.

Shorty.:p

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Originally Posted by Dante

I have implemented some of the above, but the only thing which gives me piece of mind is VPN.

Anybody connecting to my network via wireless or wired gets its into a 'DMZ subnet'. From there nothing can be done. In order to access the actual network (which then includes the other machines and internet) the users need to VPN. As VPN established a secure protocol from the start (even before authenticating) cracking the authentication is nearly impossible.

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Hey Dante...

Sounds like you are certainly making it harder for the average hacker... but depending on what hardware you are using and what sort of VPN tunnel... don't be so sure it's totally bulletproof....;)

Complacency … number one enemy of network security:p




Mark