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Is WPA3 mixed mode less secure than pure WPA3?
Enabling WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode on a single Wi-Fi network may not completely negate the security advantages of WPA3, but it does introduce some potential vulnerabilities.
The idea of WPA2/WPA3 mixed ...
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Malware infection to wifi router from android phone
Is the router safe from malware infection from android phones connected to it?
You explicitly state that the router has no vulnerabilities - which means that no vulnerabilities can be used to attack ...
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Port 53 on my home router opened, why?
Most home WiFi routers/access points contain a forwarding DNS server to serve locally conntected clients. You can change the router DHCP settings to provide e.g. Google's DNS servers and disable/...
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Persistence after successful exploitation of a router
To flash a new ROM there are special utilities, you cannot just remount it RW. Read about OpenWRT and then routers normally have a special type of storage, so it's all quite different than what we ...
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Why don’t routers request permission when attempting to connect to an unknown address? (Or why do they still assume every connection is trustworthy?)
I’m imagining a system similar to UAC on Windows but implemented at the router level for IP addresses instead. (Or AS numbers, BGP numbers, Port number, etc…)
It wouldn't make us safer, and it would ...
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Why don’t routers request permission when attempting to connect to an unknown address? (Or why do they still assume every connection is trustworthy?)
That is because routers are not made for this. Routers are made for routing packets. That is their main function. As said by @Steffen Ullrich, they do not connect to the other site, the PC at your ...
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Is it possible to hack a SSID without actually having to sniff or send deauth frames to a host?
A bash script using nmcli and a wordlist on Linux.
A bash script using networksetup on Mac OS or
CoreWLAN API using Mac OS.
Android has a WiFi developers API that can be used like this.
You will need ...
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