Securing a Home Network
Hi guys, I am new here, but I lurk all the time. Was just wondering if anyone here knows. how to secure a home network? We just added a new router, so there is Wi Fi throughout the house, but I am not comfortable with the network being open and accessible to the neighborhood like that. Thanks! and I hope this is in the right place on the forum.
http://xkcd.com/416/
Might also want to hire some security for your kids(hey, I'm just thinking in the best intrest of your Wi Fi security)
Might also want to hire some security for your kids(hey, I'm just thinking in the best intrest of your Wi Fi security)
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| I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release. |
HAH! That settles the Fedora v. Ubuntu debate for me! >:D
-Albatross
@Albatross Not even considering slax? =( -1!
@shannon: You should consider not using wep, it's unfortunately easy to crack. If at all possible use WPA and above.
@Grey Wolf, Nice article. I just about typed up half that list before actually looking at it =)
@shannon: You should consider not using wep, it's unfortunately easy to crack. If at all possible use WPA and above.
@Grey Wolf, Nice article. I just about typed up half that list before actually looking at it =)
I considered slax. I also considered Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, Debian, and ArchLinux but then decided that an LFS system, Fedora, and Ubuntu are the only real options for me as far as Linux goes.
But hey, enough thread hijacking from me. :P
-Albatross
But hey, enough thread hijacking from me. :P
-Albatross
Even WPA can be cracked fairly easily, WPA2 is better than the original WPA but it still isn't completely secure.
@Albatross,
I like Fedora but I can only use it in low graphics mode, if I try to change the graphics settings to 1440x900 it crashes (even on an emulator) so at the moment I'm using Debian, Linux Mint and PC-BSD, as well as Windows 7.
@Albatross,
I like Fedora but I can only use it in low graphics mode, if I try to change the graphics settings to 1440x900 it crashes (even on an emulator) so at the moment I'm using Debian, Linux Mint and PC-BSD, as well as Windows 7.
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Well [cracking] WPA takes a *little* more knowhow than WEP. I'm just saying stay away from the latter.
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@chrisname:
What graphics card are you using? That's probably something for me to keep track of...
@all
Well, none of those are 100% secure. What I think they were meant to do was keep ordinary people out of a network without impacting performance too much.
-Albatross
What graphics card are you using? That's probably something for me to keep track of...
@all
Well, none of those are 100% secure. What I think they were meant to do was keep ordinary people out of a network without impacting performance too much.
-Albatross
@Albatross,
It's an NVIDIA 9500 GT.
All the knowhow you need is to know how to use Aircrack-ng.
It's an NVIDIA 9500 GT.
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| Well [cracking] WPA takes a *little* more knowhow than WEP. I'm just saying stay away from the latter. |
All the knowhow you need is to know how to use Aircrack-ng.
Exactly. However, most script kiddies will stop at WEP. At least in my area, and with those skiddies I know.
Well, fair enough. I want to play with WPA-cracking now... but I have no idea how to do it.
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It's fairly straight forward. Just listen on a wpa network, and cause a client to disconnect and listen to it's connection packet, then run a rainbow on it's hash.
How do you make the client disconnect? I'm going to try and crack my own key (I know it by heart so I'll know if I get it right).
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