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Does a secured guest network on my router create significant vulnerability?

Your router can be attacked through bugs in the implementation of guest networks - maybe it is vulnerable against empty passwords, but your normal network doesnt allow empty passwords. Your router can ...
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Is it safe to keep the (secure and random) PSK provided with your router?

It's easy to imagine attacks like what you describe, involving the print on the router. If someone in your house (family member, burglar, acquaintance etc) goes and looks they can then utilise this ...
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Is it safe to keep the (secure and random) PSK provided with your router?

Just because the PSK looks secure doesn't mean it actually is. For example, the router vendor might have used an insecure random number generator to derive the keys. Or they could have derived all ...
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Using my personal computer for a new job, they require a hard-wired connection and are providing a VPN - can they see if I am on WIFI?

Since I am using my personal computer and will need to sign into a VPN, are they able to see if I am hard-wired or on Wifi? This is possible in some cases. VPN clients often do more than simply ...
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Using a mask for Aircrack

after fighting my computer for a while i actually did figure it out (for hashcat) after getting the handshake file and converting it into the correct format i ran it through hashcat with hashcat.exe -...
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