is someone trying to break me?

[funkyCable]

I've viewing my router logs and there are loads of
"Unallowed access from WLAN 00-1B-2F-9E-09-90" like 10 or so a minute.

Any advice.

[Kymmy]

Just means someone tried to connect and failed.. It happens all the time..kids playing with network adaptors, or simply a wlan on auto-negotiate seeing which networks it can connect to.. Nothing to worry about

[Ed2020]

The first thing I'd do is confirm it wasn't something of mine trying to connect. It's a Netgear device, if that's of any help.

It may be somebody trying to guess your password. It's more likely something completely innocent. Providing you have a strong password and you're *not* using WEP encryption I wouldn't worry about it. A strong password is going to take somebody a looooooong time to crack, especially at ten attempts a minute.

[Kymmy]

If it was a hack attempt then they'd be hundreds per minute

[funkyCable]

I use wpa-psk and i dont have any netgear kit. Is there a way to send them a msg to tell them to BEEP off?

[Kymmy]

Not really, just set the router to access list only that should stop any password attempts

[Ed2020]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

If it was a hack attempt then they'd be hundreds per minute

Maybe they only have a very slow computer to do their brute-forcing. Or they're clueless enough to be trying it manually.

Originally Posted by funkyCable

I use wpa-psk and i dont have any netgear kit. Is there a way to send them a msg to tell them to BEEP off?

Change your SSID to "**** off hacker"?

[Kymmy]

Hmmm, Personally I don't broadcast my SSID

[funkyCable]

Thanks guys. I noticed my SSID was being broadcasted (i'm sure i had disabled it).

No more attempts.

Now for my next ftp question which I'll post in the relevant topic

[Matty_]

Maybe also turn off "allow WAN ping" if the router has such an option.

[funkyCable]

yes i have that turned off as well

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and DoS attackes detection