Wireless Encryption

[scorpiox]

If you want to be protected, invest in the best. We have seperate equipment for the encryption of our internet stuff at the office, and at home we have WPA with a 128long string of "stuff" - letters and numbers, which mean nothing to anyone :P

[Smash]

Yeah my SSID is kinda like that. Firstly I've stopped it from being broadcast, and apart from being long, it contains a nice little 'threat' to snoopers.

Some in my area even have the house address in,

[scorpiox]

Nice. Some here arent protected, i was sat upstairs in my house and when connecting with Linux, i got access to about 5 other NON protected ones, without any problems. ;P

[Smash]

Have you ever tried Kismet?

I haven't but read that it's passive so doesn't set off alarms and also from watching vid's have seen it picks up a lot more access points than NetStumbler for windows, which isn't passive and pings the AP's.

[scorpiox]

I heard that Kismet was really the pits, but i dont know, does anyone else use it?

[niki]

Security is important. How can I secure my i-phone which is under constant attcks these days as everyone knows that safari can be hacked easily.

[funtoosh]

Don't do any important transactions on safari as it can easily be hacked install some other application.

[brodle]

I have never had any security breaches on my network but im very carefull I take the following steps.

1/ Restrict the radio signals from travelling too far.

2/ Use wpa encyption.

3/ Use a good passphrase to generate a strong network encyption key.

4/ Use mac address filtering.

5/ Change the network key weekly.

6/ Use good network monitoring software.

[blasted]

Thanks i risked this without an WEP key and had an un-secure wireless network.I thought i would be okay however, after checking the IPS conencted to the router there was 5 users.I booted them all off apart from myself, and laptops connection and added a WEP key so cheers.