Having your wifi hacked by a neighbour
#1
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Having your wifi hacked by a neighbour
What would you do?
I have 2 wireless networks outside of my own showing up, 1 called "hacking next doors wifi" and the other "virus infected wifi"
I suspect it's the teenage little **** next door.
I've created a new SSID using an old mobile phone with wifi hotspot with a nice little message.
Apart from changing the SSID of mine and hiding it which is an utter pain in the ar$e for how many devices I have connected to it what else would you do?
I could also restrict it mac address filtering but again more of a pain in the ar$e.
Or I could report it to the police and insist they do something about it under the Computer Misuse Act which carries a maximum 5 year sentence or fine. He's a public school boy and his parents would have a fit if the police turned up at their house they are right stuck up *****
At the moment I have no proof it's him but easy enough to get software to check signal strength of wifi signals and have a walk about outside to pinpoint which house it's coming from
Any other ideas/suggestions?
I have 2 wireless networks outside of my own showing up, 1 called "hacking next doors wifi" and the other "virus infected wifi"
I suspect it's the teenage little **** next door.
I've created a new SSID using an old mobile phone with wifi hotspot with a nice little message.
Apart from changing the SSID of mine and hiding it which is an utter pain in the ar$e for how many devices I have connected to it what else would you do?
I could also restrict it mac address filtering but again more of a pain in the ar$e.
Or I could report it to the police and insist they do something about it under the Computer Misuse Act which carries a maximum 5 year sentence or fine. He's a public school boy and his parents would have a fit if the police turned up at their house they are right stuck up *****
At the moment I have no proof it's him but easy enough to get software to check signal strength of wifi signals and have a walk about outside to pinpoint which house it's coming from
Any other ideas/suggestions?
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Well that was easy, found out who it is and it's not who I thought! No police needed
Amazing the apps you can get on your phone, told me all I wanted to know
Might tighten up my router security though now its made me think about it.
Amazing the apps you can get on your phone, told me all I wanted to know
Might tighten up my router security though now its made me think about it.
Last edited by An0n0m0us; 01 July 2018 at 09:07 PM.
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It's using wpa2 yep but used to have it tighter with hidden ssid and mac address restrictions but it was a pain to setup each time I got a new router.
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Originally Posted by alcazar
How on earth does anyone hack a password like the ones that go mxyztplk???
Then you have social engineering which is also common and actually quite easy, using poorly passworded email accounts to then get into everything else.
Brute force beaches are a really a thing in films and would is actually pointless on a cost scale when social engineering is so simple and easy.
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Also when I looked it up there are Linux distros specifically aimed at 'penetration testing' when they actually mean hacking wifi. Kali Linux being one of them.
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You would be better using something like "inssider" to measure the strength of your own signal from outside your property and turn down the output power of your own router, if you can, move it up on to the first floor of your house, then turn down the power.
I have a great feature in my access point called Air Marshall - I have it configured to block access to my network from rogue devices by MAC or SSID. It sends me an alert when a rogue device is detected, which I have labelled when I know who's device it is - this means I can tell when the postman has been on my property, the guy from the electricity company, a range of delivery drivers etc as I have collected their details over time, as long as they have their phone or tablet or whatever with them, I know when they are at my house before they knock the door.
I have a great feature in my access point called Air Marshall - I have it configured to block access to my network from rogue devices by MAC or SSID. It sends me an alert when a rogue device is detected, which I have labelled when I know who's device it is - this means I can tell when the postman has been on my property, the guy from the electricity company, a range of delivery drivers etc as I have collected their details over time, as long as they have their phone or tablet or whatever with them, I know when they are at my house before they knock the door.
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Cracking WIFI is not as easy as you might think unless it is really badly configured - without a wifi card capable of packet injection and operating in monitoring mode, and understanding what these mean, you aren't really going to gain much.
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don't bee fooled though - the average Joe will struggle to even install backtrack, kali, or any of the other pen test distros never mind be able to use them!!
Cracking WIFI is not as easy as you might think unless it is really badly configured - without a wifi card capable of packet injection and operating in monitoring mode, and understanding what these mean, you aren't really going to gain much.
Cracking WIFI is not as easy as you might think unless it is really badly configured - without a wifi card capable of packet injection and operating in monitoring mode, and understanding what these mean, you aren't really going to gain much.
Last edited by An0n0m0us; 03 July 2018 at 06:33 PM.
#18
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do you really think a hacker would name there connections like that? lol
you've been trolled and caught hook, line, sinker and the rod by the looks of your reaction lol
you've been trolled and caught hook, line, sinker and the rod by the looks of your reaction lol
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Eh? Where did I say it was a hacker? I thought it was the little teenage **** who lives next door because I don't get on with them that's all
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Yeah it says by a neighbour and your point is? Some kid trying to hack wifi doesn't make them a hacker just a pain in the ar$e So your trying to make out i've claimed something I haven't
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Dammit: I have a sinking feeling my routers been hacked.
Can't access login page.
It's either that or the hot weather has made it go on the fritz (it lives in the attic space, but its coped with the heat for years without issue).
Currently powered down for a tea break to see if a cool down and reboot will fix it.
Failing that I'll have to flash the b*stard.
Sent from my iPhone with 1 bar of signal on the 4G
Can't access login page.
It's either that or the hot weather has made it go on the fritz (it lives in the attic space, but its coped with the heat for years without issue).
Currently powered down for a tea break to see if a cool down and reboot will fix it.
Failing that I'll have to flash the b*stard.
Sent from my iPhone with 1 bar of signal on the 4G
Last edited by ALi-B; 08 July 2018 at 03:34 PM.
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