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Who has cut the cord?
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Quote:The easiest way to get hacked is by some phishing attack, or downloading/clicking on some infected file. This is how most ransomware gets distributed. That is easy. Hacking wifi is difficult. For home wifi, you only have to do two things to protect yourself. Set the encryption to WPA2 with a good password, and change the router's default password. Wifi passwords can be cracked offline with a deauth attack, but the hacker would literally have to have a list of passwords that just so happens to have yours in it to crack it. Brute forcing would likely take forever even for a bad password and probably isn't even worth it. Regarding the part in bold, I was referring to what you said regarding wireless broadband technology. I guess I shouldn't have used the term WiFi since it is different. I do agree with most of your point, however MITM attacks still happen more than you might think. Also, the average user whether it's a business or a residential user does not change the default password on their router and does not use a strong password. I'm willing to bet that on this very forum more passwords can be defeated using brute force and a decent dictionary. There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. |
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