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Tagged with security wireless-networking
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Does increasing the complexity of a PSK passphrase mitigate the risks of WPA-TKIP?
I'm responsible for configuring a small business network (50-60 devices) and we have some ancient devices that must connect wirelessly to the network. Our regular wireless accepts AES WPA and WPA2 ...
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An device with an unknown MAC address is connected to my router
There is a computer that is not mine that is accessible on my network. I can even access its filesystem via AFP. What I want to know is how the computer could get on my network. My network is secured ...
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How can I prevent Desktop Users from viewing the wireless password?
The title says it; I want to prevent users from viewing the wireless network password on Ubuntu. It's easily viewable through the included application called seahorse.
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Pros and Cons of unsecured wireless network?
What are the pros and cons that people have found about hosting a wireless network with no security on it (i.e. open and free access)?
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What are the dangers of running a wireless router with no encryption?
I have an Airport Extreme and I've been having trouble running with WPA2 encryption. It intermittently loses the connection to the router. I turned encryption off and the problem seems to have gone ...
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Setting up WiFi so even non-technical people can connect easily
I keep running into this: I want to set up a temporary WiFi access point, but there's always someone who can't connect easily. So I end up spending at least 10 minutes on figuring out what's wrong ...
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How to properly secure a wireless home network
I'm soon going to be setting up a wireless network for me and some buddies and (hopefully) making it secure. I have some questions and concerns regarding this and figured someone here could give me a ...
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How do I manually clone a wifi access point?
I am running a powerline signal extender. Without further modification I now have two access points, one at the router and one at the extender, with different SSIDs.
I want to clone the router so ...
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How to disable disclosing a computer name to a network?
I don't use (I've disabled it by normal means and blocked the ports with personal a firewall) Windows Networking (CIFS aka NetBIOS aka SMB etc), but my PC has a name as it seems to be mandatory in ...
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Why is reaver not guessing the correct PIN?
I'm learning about network security. This time I'm trying to pen-test my router by exploiting WPS on my router.
Here's my router's stats
BSSID Ch dBm WPS Lck Vendor ESSID
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How to delete Wi-Fi password on shutdown?
I use a wireless network on my Windows 7 and 8. The problem is that I don't want to store the password I entered so I need to know if there is any method to delete saved passwords every time I ...
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Wireless network card security vulnerabilities
Is it possible for a hacker to access a standalone laptop that has an enabled wireless network card but is not connected to a wireless access point? I.e. I'm using my laptop on the bus and someone ...
Alex Worden
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How to limit internet traffic in some computers of my home network?
I'm sharing my home wireless network, using a DIR-655 Wireless Router with 3 other people (2 using windows machines and one use mac laptop, I also use a mac laptop). I need to know how can I limit ...
Guga
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When you log into MySQL is the password encrypted?
I'm using an insecure wireless network (because the secure network is currently down).
I wanted to know: When you log into MySQL, does the client program encrypt the password before sending it?
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Help me with my WLAN security!
This is my security problem.
So, I'm connecting to the internet through a WLAN network, shared by another person, we both are admins over the network and know the password, but he is a computer guru ...
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