Wireless network safe?

Dutch Guy · 13 Apr 2007 at 08:49

I am having terrible problems getting my PS3 to work wireless with encryption enabled (WEP or WPA)

What I did for now was to change the SSID of my network and disable SSID broadcast and have Encryption disabled, but how safe is this?

I have also heard about MAC filtering, does this mean that I can add the MAC addresses of my PS3 and Laptop to the list so that those two machines are the only ones that can connect to the router, is that right?

Would an open network with SSID broadcast disabled and MAC filtering on be a safe option?

bringans · 13 Apr 2007 at 09:07

simply no, 5min on any windows PC and they would be in. WEP, takes about10min on Linux box to crack, WPA takes longer but can be hacked.
WPA2 to this day is the only one not hacked.

Dutch Guy · 13 Apr 2007 at 09:59

bringans said:
simply no, 5min on any windows PC and they would be in. WEP, takes about10min on Linux box to crack, WPA takes longer but can be hacked.
WPA2 to this day is the only one not hacked.

Even with SSID broadcast disabled and MAC filtering?

bringans · 13 Apr 2007 at 10:25

With Linux kismet will do all this, added some other tools to get mac

Airmagnet is just one of many that will get the ssid for windows and there are many tools to fake a Mac addy

And KisMAC for the apple people

There are many more and a lot better than these out there, I use some pretty hardcore ones with my company, but then its my job to defend people from attacks hehe.

but these are the ones any man and his dog can get just using google.

Avalon · 14 Apr 2007 at 13:03

WPA can only be broken with a dictionary file, use a random alphanumeric of the maximum (mixed case) permissable length and you are safe. Use something like 'Hello' or something equally dumb and you should be shot.

Phemo · 14 Apr 2007 at 14:15

Dutch Guy said:
Even with SSID broadcast disabled and MAC filtering?

Yes, there are tools out there that will allow anyone to find a network regardless of whether or not the SSID is visible. MAC address filtering is pretty useless as it's easy to spoof a MAC address of a device. All a potential 'hacker' would need to do is look to see which MACs are associated to the AP - something that's very easy to do.