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Old 21-04-2007, 09:26   #4
JohnHorb
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Re: Wireless security breach - how?

Yes - standard firmware. I don't think it lost any other settings, and the odd thing is that the password I had set came back when I rebooted. Also, it seems very suspicious that there were 4 or 5 'freeloaders' connected when I checked, as this was within a few minutes of me being disconnected.

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Originally Posted by deadite66 View Post
WEP is a horribly broken encryption, a recent development shows it can be broken in a few minutes.
you should be quite safe with WPA.
you can use this page https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm to make nice randomised passwords.
Cheers - I guess that's what happened then. They cracked the WEP encryption AND the password then switched off security. Still intrigued that the password came back on reboot, but hopefully I'm more secure now.
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