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Windows 7 : Any way to disable "show caracter" in WIFI network properties?
Here's my issue. I'm working in a school as IT Tech and I'm currently planning to roll out Windows 7 on students laptop.
The issue is : When you go to the properties of a WIFI network, you have the ...
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Security on wireless mouse and keyboard
At work I am using a wireless mouse and keyboard. I was sitting at my desk this morning wondering if and how they are secured against key loggers.
What stops another device from listening to my ...
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What security does the wpa_passphrase tool actually add to a wpa-supplicant configuration file?
I was looking at this guide to setting up a wifi connection on a modern linux system (specifically raspbian, but I assume the steps are similar in other linux systems) with only a command-line ...
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How Safe Is SSL In a Public Place (Airport/Coffee Shop)
If someone is monitoring all of the traffic on a network, and then I connect to it, and log into a website that is protected with SSL - is there any security risk?
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How can I secure my home PCs when my neighbors are allowed to connect to the internet through my home wireless router?
This is a follow-up question to What are the ways to monitor and limit the internet connection speed that individual computers are getting from my wireless router?.
How can I make sure that my home ...
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How secure is it to use a password hash of a common English word as a WPA2 key?
I have a wireless router, and I want a difficult password that is still, in a way, easy to remember.
I came up with this idea to take the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, or whatever hash of a common English ...
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How can I prevent Windows 10 from sharing wifi details with my contacts?
In recent release of Windows 10 we could see a new feature named wifi sense, which raised the following security threat as per this blog post :
This brilliant new feature, which Microsoft has ...
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Can attackers harvest WiFi passwords by spoofing ESSID?
I've recently started using wireless on an (Arch) laptop.
My wireless manager (wicd) is set up to automatically associate with any networks with a certain ESSID and attempt to authenticate with them.
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How Wifis and wifi security work?
I see tons of videos dealing with WEP cracking, but actaully none of them teach about how Wifis work. They are just a bunch of commands thrown at the screen. Where can I learn about the inner ...
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I think someone else has access to my wireless network. What next?
I kust realized that some other PC is also getting assigned a IP address (DHCP Lease) from my modem. I am sure this is not one of the PCs in my home.
My modem was using WEP security. I know WEP is ...
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How to stop Windows 10 from adding WiFi networks under the authority of some "Network Provider"
I was having major trouble with my internet connection, earlier today, and, when the solution became apparent, I noticed something terribly worrying. The problem was that my notebook was not actually ...
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How to avoid an insecure initial connection on public Wi-Fi networks before the VPN is enabled?
It’s a best practice to use VPN when you connect to public Wi-Fi networks. However, in the scenarios I am aware of, you first connect to the network and only then—after connected—switch to VPN. In ...
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Secure setup of home wireless network [closed]
How to configure home wireless network to ensure that it is sufficiently secured and at the same time its usability is not restricted.
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Just to clarify by "usability is not restricted" I meant ...
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Are WiFi transmissions over an open network encrypted?
By "open" I mean the router does not require a password to connect.
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Risks of using WiFi instead of Cable Internet
I want to know what are the risks of using the WiFi internet instead of the cable.
why the cable is more secure ?
why the the WiFi is more vulnurable ?
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