You may also want to disable Wi-Fi Protected Setup if your router/access point has the option.
> -----Original Message----- > From: > Dan Penoff via Mercedes > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 8:40 AM > > Just leave it out there, but enable security. WPA for sure, as WEP has been > compromised for years. Change the admin account credentials to something > secure. Use good password practices (8 character minimum, a mix of > numbers, upper/lower case letters and characters, no dictionary words.) > > Realize that if someone is war driving and your AP is locked down, unless > they're specifically targeting you they'll move on. > > One Christmas some years back the youngest son and I went for a slow drive > around the neighborhood with a laptop running Kismet, an open source > wireless sniffer. Out of maybe 80 access points, we found roughly 60 that > were either wide open (no admin account) or still using the default admin > accounts shipped with the hardware. > > So unless you're being targeted specifically, you'll be a lousy exploit for > someone just going around being malicious. With all the easy pickings out > there, they'll move on. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
