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<blockquote data-quote="ZeroDay" data-source="post: 830103" data-attributes="member: 11608">Meanwhile the teenage kid next door to me is still trying to breach my network. I told him he could, he wants to test, improve and refine his pen testing skills. He didn&#039;t want to know what kind of security setup I have on my home network. I&#039;ll give him another couple of days of pulling his hair out&nbsp; and then I&#039;ll break the news to him regarding my network setup. Even the simple trick above.I was mowing the lawn last week and he asked if I&#039;d mind if he practised his hacking/pen testing skills to try and breach my network just for experience.&nbsp; He&#039;s a bright kid. In a couple of days I&#039;m going to set a guest network up for him and still keep security tight but I&#039;ll leave just enough room for him to breach my network but it&#039;s still going to be difficult. He did say he wanted experience lol. He&#039;s friends with my son and his parents aren&#039;t tech savvy at all so it makes his day when he can chat to me about all the stuff he&#039;s learning and wants to do. He&#039;s definitely going to have a bright future in IT. He asked another neighbour the same question he asked me, but not only did he breach the other neighbours network he also left a text file on one of that neighbours old laptops&nbsp; desktop saying Winning... lol. I never check other peoples networks unless I&#039;m asked to. So, as you can imagine the other neighbour asked me to secure his network. To be honest its beyond me how the neighbour with the weak network and indeed weak and vulnerable systems haven&#039;t been seriously breached as in had their bank details stolen, all their personal info and data stolen etc. His router was an old one provided by his ISP. I asked why he hadn&#039;t at the very least asked his ISP for a new router and he just shrugged. Anyway I&#039;ve cleaned all his systems, made sure they&#039;re secure but not invasive security, dine the same thing I mentioned in my previous comment on his router too, that was after going with him to buy a new router, nothing special but it&#039;s new, updated and secure enough for him and his family.The trick the OP mentioned is a very sneaky little trick isn&#039;t it. I&#039;ve seen that before. Its basically phishing isn&#039;t it but at the network level.OP - Have you also changed the default password on your router for the admin console? The last thing you want is the person who carried out this attack to gain access to your admin router console. I&#039;d definitely hide your network, only allow devices that you&#039;ve manually typed in the mac addresses into your router for to connect, change your default router password too. And, I know its&nbsp; PITA but change your network name even though its hidden and your WIFI password randomly. So you could change those details after 3-6 months or you could change them next month. Just make sure theres no pattern to you changing those details.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ZeroDay, post: 830103, member: 11608"] Meanwhile the teenage kid next door to me is still trying to breach my network. I told him he could, he wants to test, improve and refine his pen testing skills. He didn't want to know what kind of security setup I have on my home network. I'll give him another couple of days of pulling his hair out and then I'll break the news to him regarding my network setup. Even the simple trick above. I was mowing the lawn last week and he asked if I'd mind if he practised his hacking/pen testing skills to try and breach my network just for experience. He's a bright kid. In a couple of days I'm going to set a guest network up for him and still keep security tight but I'll leave just enough room for him to breach my network but it's still going to be difficult. He did say he wanted experience lol. He's friends with my son and his parents aren't tech savvy at all so it makes his day when he can chat to me about all the stuff he's learning and wants to do. He's definitely going to have a bright future in IT. He asked another neighbour the same question he asked me, but not only did he breach the other neighbours network he also left a text file on one of that neighbours old laptops desktop saying Winning... lol. I never check other peoples networks unless I'm asked to. So, as you can imagine the other neighbour asked me to secure his network. To be honest its beyond me how the neighbour with the weak network and indeed weak and vulnerable systems haven't been seriously breached as in had their bank details stolen, all their personal info and data stolen etc. His router was an old one provided by his ISP. I asked why he hadn't at the very least asked his ISP for a new router and he just shrugged. Anyway I've cleaned all his systems, made sure they're secure but not invasive security, dine the same thing I mentioned in my previous comment on his router too, that was after going with him to buy a new router, nothing special but it's new, updated and secure enough for him and his family. The trick the OP mentioned is a very sneaky little trick isn't it. I've seen that before. Its basically phishing isn't it but at the network level. OP - Have you also changed the default password on your router for the admin console? The last thing you want is the person who carried out this attack to gain access to your admin router console. I'd definitely hide your network, only allow devices that you've manually typed in the mac addresses into your router for to connect, change your default router password too. And, I know its PITA but change your network name even though its hidden and your WIFI password randomly. So you could change those details after 3-6 months or you could change them next month. Just make sure theres no pattern to you changing those details. [/QUOTE]

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