homesecuritysystemtips.com — In a recent survey securing wireless networks was one of the top three issues in home security. 30% of wireless home networks were wide open for bandwidth theft and a possible threat of unwanted access to home computers.
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reliantNov 5, 2006
It's very important to have your router setup under WPA encryption. WEP is useless. You can go to the following netcast links to hear more useful information. These are episodes ofSecurity Now! with Steve Gibson. They can be found on the <a class="user" href="http://twit.tv">http://twit.tv</a> network.<a class="user" href="http://www.twit.tv/sn4">http://www.twit.tv/sn4</a><a class="user" href="http://www.twit.tv/node/3965">http://www.twit.tv/node/3965</a>
whitetNov 5, 2006
WPA with 20+ character passphrase, good (can only break based on handshake packets).WEP, useless (only 24-bits of IVs, once an IV is duplicated, breaking your key is trivial).MAC Address Filtering, good (it'll stop 95% of the kiddies trying to break your network).Disabling SSID Broadcase, useless (Listen on the channel or de-auth attack).All in all, if someone is serious about breaking your wireless network, they can. For the average home user, using WPA and MAC address filtering should hold you over fairly well.