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January 13th, 2008
A little more than a year ago I’ve published an article titled “Secure your wireless network” with some basic rules about how to protect your wireless network.
I’ve found a very interesting article, titled Wireless LAN security myths that won’t die, that essentially explains why most points in the earliest post, as well as most “protect [...]
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January 22nd, 2007
IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is probably the least familiar MUST-HAVE security component.
That’s probably due to the fact that the consumer market, while already familiar with and uses firewalls and anti-virus, doesn’t yet have friendly, mass-market IDS product available.
At the very least you MUST know something about this important security component.
Check out this short and sweet [...]
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January 2nd, 2007
I’ve found a very useful short little forum post: How to sniff plain-text passwords in 13 steps
Step 1: Download, install and run Cain & Abel.
Step 2: Click “Configure” in the top bar.
Step 3: In the “Sniffer” tab, click the adapter which is connected to the network to be sniffed, then click “Apply”, then “OK”.
Step 4: [...]
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December 30th, 2006
I’ve finally joined the rest of the world and made the move to a wireless router.
Since I was very pleased with my good old D-Link router, I’ve decided to buy a D-Link DI-624 Wireless router.
It’s quite popular, supports “super” 802.11g (up to 108Mbps) and is pretty cheap as well.
The installation was real quick and simple [...]
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