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RE: home wireless router good practices for security
From: "Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ]" <aditya () online nailed org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:39:19 +0530
1. wireless encryption wont make any nocicable diffence in your network performance 2. dont know 3. 3 suggestions a. install a personal firewall for your os b. setup a vpn if you are paranoid after you have enabled WEP - makes a 10% performance loss but worth it c. setup snort with the relevent signatures -aditya -----Original Message----- From: Steve [mailto:securityfocus () delahunty com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:03 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: home wireless router good practices for security So I went out and purchased a wireless router (Linksys 802.11b) for home since it was so inexpensive and actually less cost than the wireless access points I was trying to get via eBay. Got it home, installed my wireless network card (SMC), powered on the router, attached it to a port on my other wired linksys router, and boom it worked great. Then about 5 minutes after I sent an instant message to my neighbor (fellow IT friend) he was on my network. So I took the steps that Linksys recommends below, seems good (to me). Change the default SSID Disable SSID Broadcasts Change the default password for the Administrator account Enable WEP 128-bit Encryption Linksys also recommends these other measures, I have not implemented: Enable MAC Address Filtering Change the SSID periodically Change the WEP encryption keys periodically. My Questions: 1) Anyone know how much enabling 128-bit encryption will hurt my wireless performance? 2) Does setting the SSID for my wireless NIC then keep me from getting onto other wireless networks like when traveling? I ask since that setting was set to ANY before I changed it to the SSID that I set for my wireless router. 3) What else should I really do to protect my home network? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: home wireless router good practices for security Aditya [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Jan 02)
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- Re: home wireless router good practices for security Greg Tracy (Jan 05)
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