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I pay monthly for a VPN. However, I browse online while connected to my university WiFi which requires authentication to use. The WiFi is open (no password directly) but when someone connects to it a page pops up and we have to input our u… Continue reading Is a VPN effective when connected to WiFi network that requires authentication?
fibre to the property is being installed in my road for the first time
my landlord doesn’t want lots of holes in their building
they acknowledges that FttP is probably necessary going forward
So their solution is to have 1 package/contra… Continue reading Landlord wants to share a single 3Gbps fibre to the property line across 4 flats using a mesh network. Should I be concerned?
I watched a Computerphile video. In the end, Dr. Bagley talked about the fact that a router can only receive/send a packet at a time, so if one device is slow it will slow every device down because all devices talk sequentially to the rout… Continue reading Slow Loris Attack Wi-Fi variant
[Nathanial Hendler]’s Apple2Idiot expansion card for the Apple II family of computers is a nifty mix of modern and vintage, and provides a clever means of allowing the host computer …read more Continue reading APPLE2IDIOT Expansion Card Lets Your Apple II (Sort Of) Access the Internet
I saw this unknown address under my personal hotspot summary on an iPhone:
e:69:a5:97:7:17
Interestingly enough, it only has 10-digits so it cannot be a MAC address. What is it then? Should I be worried?
Continue reading What is this unknown 10-digit device address? Found on an iPhone
When connecting to 2 networks at the same time (ethernet and wifi) all major OSs will force you to use the Ethernet connection for all network activities for all applications.
asking about this somewhere on the internet, yielded the respon… Continue reading Is there a security risk in allowing applications use different networks on os level
I’ve put my wireless card in monitor mode following this tutorial. After that, I started monitor my wifi home and, after a few seconds, I stop it. Every packet was crypted (obviously), so I follow this tutorial and including my <wifi_pa… Continue reading Trying to decrypt my home network
What, if any, functional security difference exists between having an unsecured “open” public wifi and one that uses a publicly available password? An example of the latter is: a wifi with SSID “ThePasswordIsPassw0rd” and corresponding pa… Continue reading Hijacking of sessions: public unencrypted network vs public “password” protected network
Can a laptop get a virus through a Wi-Fi network with connected infected machines without connecting to the network (just by being withing the reach of the network signal and sensing it)? And vise versa, if one protects its WiFi network wi… Continue reading Infecting laptop through a nearby Wi-Fi network?
I recently put up a Wyze Cam, a brand of Wi-Fi security camera, and I am curious as to how (in)secure it is. I heard that the Wyze company servers got breached once before. How easily could an attacker gain access to my account? Also, if t… Continue reading How secure is the Wyze Cam? How easily could an attacker gain access to it?