Extra Protection against Wardriving attacks

ernie · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 195

Iâ€™ve just recently installed wireless net. While I was getting info on it, I read about this â€˜wardrivingâ€™. I still donâ€™t understand well how that can harm me but it sounds like itâ€™s really easy for people to get into my computer and use it without my approval. And I think that I should protect from it. Does anyone here know what is the best way to protect from wardriving attacks? Thanks!

chrissy · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 198

I think that most of the people confuse wardriving with piggybacking. Wardriving software only takes control of the wireless radio while piggybacking is connecting to a network without explicit authorization and itâ€™s more dangerous. Anyway, there is something called RADIUS that is good when it comes to protection from wardriving and you can find more info on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS . However, itâ€™s only compatible with some routers and specific firmware.

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Extra Protection against Wardriving attacks

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