Questions tagged [wifi]
Security for 802.11 wireless networks.
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Can a school wifi track your wifi after you disconnect?
So I logged into my school wifi on my laptop, and I was just wondering:
Can they still track what I do even after I disconnect? I am using my own computer (not the school's,) but is it possible that ...
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How can I prevent abuse of our public WiFi network?
One of our customers runs a holiday park with <100 users on it.
We currently have a mikrotik in place that prevents torrenting etc, however their line has been cut off as someone there has been ...
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WPA/WPA2 networks without passwords [duplicate]
From my current understanding, WPA networks use a network's SSID and password to produce a PSK (pre-shared-key), which encrypts/decrypts communications between the router and the client before a new ...
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Unregister your device from a WiFi network [closed]
Recently, I connected my Android device to an open wi-fi network. Then a web page opened up asking me to choose username and password to log in with. Now when I connect the same device to that network,...
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Work computer hard wired to home modem [duplicate]
I took my office desktop computer home and plugged it into the router. I work for a private company and one of the owners went to school for computer programing/information security/etc). Can they see ...
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Is VLAN better than guest wifi feature
I own the internet connection and router and going to share it with apartment mates. I want to accomplish the following things
Isolate our networks, such that they cannot see my internet activity or ...
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How can I safeguard myself if share the same router with the people living in my apartment
I share the same wireless router with some other people living in the same apartment. I want to safeguard my privacy and also not be held liable for their internet activity. The modem from the ISP ...
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Am I getting DDOS attacked?
There has been some weird activity with my WiFi router after somebody threatened to DDoS me. I am looking at my WiFi router's activity logs and I don't know what I am looking for.
What happens is my ...
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Can my school see my browsing history while on campus? [duplicate]
I'm a bit paranoid right now about what my school can and can't see on my device. My school has a BYOD policy which means that I bring my own device to work. I am logged in using my personal account ...
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Is hosting your own website safe? [closed]
So I made this website on python with Flask. I want to host this website on a rasberry pi on my own home network which everybody in my family uses.
Should I?
Is it safe?
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How can one identify if a ssid is an evil twin before connecting?
How can I check before I connect that the WPA2 ssid I am connecting to is the correct one when I'm in an area with spoofed ssid's?
How can I evade an evil twin without trying to connect with a fake ...
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How to send deauth packets on Windows (manually or with software)?
first of all I know how deauth packets work basically. But since my wifi adapter refuses to work on my virtual Kali, I want to use my host machine (Windows 10). So I have NPcap and Wireshark and I can ...
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Detecting access point model
Is there any way to detect the model (brand, reference, ...) of a reachable wireless access point without having to connect to it?
Sniffing packets with Wireshark or others does not give any info, but ...
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My Home WiFi Password was given away to a plumber who said he needed it, it then unusually went down for no apparent reason, is this suspicious? [closed]
My home WiFi password was given away by my dad to a plumber who came in saying that he needed the WiFi password for his phone. As soon as he told him the WiFi went down for a few minutes, which I ...
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Are there any known attacks for a laptop with the wifi connection turned off?
I recently got a new laptop. As I usually do, I removed the wifi module from it, since I intend to use it in public places such as my college and I don't need any sort of connectivity outside my home. ...
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Do you have to be on the same WIFI for a Buffer Overflow attack to work?
I know how Buffer Overflows work but in order to do them do you have to be on the same WIFI as your victim. You need to send a packet to a specific device on a specific port. Therefore, unless port ...
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If i download a pic in telegram secret chat on a public wifi then can hacker see the photo? [duplicate]
I downloaded a sensitive pic on telegram's secret chat which contained important details on public wifi, can anyone on the same wifi see what i downloaded and saved in my gallery?
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WEP fake authentication purpose
I am studying WEP protocol and more specifically fake authentication attack. Man page says
This is only useful when you need an associated MAC address in various aireplay-ng
attacks and there is ...
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Is there any problem associated with using emojis in WIFI SSID?
My router configuration panel won't allow me to use emojis in SSID, for some reason. Although, I can very easily bypass this restriction, using the browser developer tools (which makes me think if it'...
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What is Received Sequence Counter(RSC) in WPA authentication
In WPA 4-way handshake and in Message 3 (while GTK transfer), A RSC (Received sequence Number ) sent by the Authenticator (AP) to the supplicant.
The only information I found about RSC is that it's ...
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Why is my IP address different when I connect to a vpn?
If for example I connect to PIA VPN, and I hover over the icon on my toolbar, next to the volume, wifi, and battery symbol on a mac, it shows me one ip address (IP A) that is different from my actual ...
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Data Security on a Malicious WiFi Network
Let's assume that I unwittingly connect to a malicious WiFi network and visit some websites. By malicious, I mean the network has been set up for the purpose of stealing data.
From what I've read, ...
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My friends are disrupting my internet connection [duplicate]
My friends have my ip address and they're all programmers/hackers. They've been interfering with my wifi connection several times today. Asking them to stop or saying "they won't do anything"...
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Did someone impersonate my WiFi?
TL;DR: An unknown WiFi extender showed up in my DHCP logs and my phone routinely connected through that access point. How badly was my network or traffic at risk?
This morning, while struggling with ...
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Are my devices and information vulnerable in a public network? what are some solutions?
I'm Studying at a University that has a public network around campus that all students use. This network is even available at the dorms. Since all devices are connected to the same network, is my ...
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Can a driver(malware) hide it self from device manager?
For security reasons, I have this question in mind. I am not a security professional, so I want to ask:
Let's suppose my computer's firmware is hacked. If I disable the wifi driver on windows, can a ...
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Is there a point in randomizing my WPA2-Personal SSID (meaning, set a random string in place of the SSID)?
I was looking for ways to make Wi-Fi that uses WPA2-Personal/WPA-PSK secure, and I stumbled in this answer (the second one, from Terrence Koeman):
WPA2-PSK (aka WPA2 Personal) basically does the same ...
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How do I determine whether a person use a (public) WiFi access point using WiFi sniffing?
I would like to distinguish the behavior of users to use a (public) Wi-Fi access point. It would be possible to access the log files of the access point, but I don't have the authority to.
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How to prevent my MI AIR purifier from listening on my wifi traffic?
So I recently bought MI Air purifier. It uses my wifi to get connected to internet. It needs to connect to internet so that I can monitor/control it from anywhere.
Now, what kind of precautions do I ...
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Rainbow tables/hash tables versus WPA/WPA2
In Wi-Fi penetration testing, is it possible to use rainbow tables/hash tables on WPA/WPA2 networks?
Is there an advantage of one over the other?
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Can your internet provider monitor your data (passwords, etc?)
Was typing in my password into an HTTPS website when I started to wonder if my home WiFi (whether a neighbor could have hacked into and monitoring it) is secure.
When I type in
Username123
Password123
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Why is an IP address in a different city? [duplicate]
Someone lives in city A, but their IP address from home always displays as belonging to city B, 50 miles away in the same country. Both cities are the largest in the country, so this is not about one ...
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Secure Way to Set Up Wifi Extender
I recently purchased a wifi extender and I now have to set it up.
There are three options for how to set it up:
Through the app
By pressing the WPS button on the router and then pressing the WPS ...
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Can malware infect computers via wifi routers and mice? [duplicate]
My computer was hacked, which probably resulted in malware/a virus being installed so I'm using my most recent backup on a separate machine (all macOS). Luckily, I was able to determine the timing of ...
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What are the security implications if someone got my home WiFi network password?
I gave my WiFi password to a guest. I'm wondering how can he exploit this opportunity? Like, can he access my other devices localhost servers? Can he brute force to get the password of the router to ...
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802.11s with SAE vs WPA-RSN (802.11i) on a MESH network
I'm investigating a protection options for a mesh network (p2p). The amount of nodes is constantly changing and possibly owned by different entities.
We are thinking between 802.11s with SAE (...
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airodump-ng station not associated with bssid
Why do some BSSIDs show as "not associated" (note: not all of them show as such; some just show a usual BSSID).
I have tried to use the other BSSID that shows up for the other station but it didn't ...
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KARMA attack does not require for an attacker to be in range of the target network?
I have recently read about the comparison between KARMA attack and Evil Twin attack. The article states that contrary to an Evil Twin attack, in which the attacker is required to be in range of the ...
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How (un)safe is it to use TKIP?
I have recently bought a wifi range extender to improve the signal coverage through the house. When I set it up, I noticed the iOS 14 recognizes it as unsafe since it uses TKIP and advises to set it ...
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How cameras receive Wi-Fi credentials from App?
I bought a wifi camera and performed the simple startup process:
Powered on
Discovered the camera through the dedicated App
Set the WiFi credentials on the App to pass to the camera
After that, the ...
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Smaller password lists [closed]
I hack wifi passwords with kali linux on airmon-ng and I make always password lists with crunch but the lists are always too long (I'm talking about <100 PT) and I want to know if is there a ...
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Do some IoT devices connect to your wifi without you knowing it?
I keep hearing about refrigerators and automated vacuum cleaners being targeted, but do the owners manually configure these devices to connect to their wifi network or do the devices have a work ...
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Problems in stopping/restoring Aircrack session
I'm running aircrack-ng version 1.6 on Live Kali. I noticed that "recently" a -N option has been added for saving a session, which can be later resumed with the option -R.
However this seems ...
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Password leak to malicious AP with the same SSID [duplicate]
I was just surprised to find out that devices when connecting to WiFi networks compare the SSID to known ones and try the saved password.
In other terms: I have replaced my home router, and my device ...
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Hide devices connected to WiFi
I'm a noob in home security and networking. I suspect one of my neighbor is sniffing packets destined to my wifi router. I have many questions about this
Will they be able to identify the no. of ...
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NEST Camera WiFi security disruption
Last week one of my NEST WiFi cameras was knocked offline for about 90 seconds. Before this comms loss, we see from the video that someone was using a flashlight and walking towards the camera before ...
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Can someone hack into my Wifi network through my cell phone?
Let's say my cell phone is hacked by somebody and that I have no knowledge that my cell phone has been hacked. My cell phone is connected to a WiFi network A.
Can hackers hack into the WiFi network ...
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Why do Wifi connections to evil twins happen?
It seems to me that one of the major flaws of Wifi is that computers will auto-reconnect to a Wifi that merely has the same name as one you connected to in the past i.e. an evil twin. While perusing ...
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Is it possible to detect when a device has been MAC filtered on a Wi-Fi network?
Is it possible to detect when a device has been MAC filtered on a Wi-Fi network?
I don't know if it's in the 802.11 standard, or if it's just implemented by ignoring the client network packets.
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Is there any way for my ISP or LAN admin to learn my Gmail address as a result of me logging into Gmail's web interface through via their network?
The title says it all, really. I'm Alice, and I want to login to Gmail's web interface through my browser. Ike, the internet service provider, and Adam, the local network administrator, would like to ...
