In 5 days, somehow with only playing videogames (tf2, hon,) online and surfing the web, we have spent 20 gigs of my household broadband. We have 5 left.
We have wireless mac adress filtering and firewalls and all that stuff, is it possible for someone to haxor through wireless mac filtering? Dad reckons that its impossible but i know theres assholes out there that want free interwebs.
anyways to sum it up, 20 gigs in five days, nobody is torrenting, just surfing the web. Mac adress filter or whatever the fuck its called.
Can i possibly spend 20 gigs of broadband playing too much team fortress? Is someone ninja'ing my interwebs? Can people hack mac adress filtering firewalls and all the security measures one can buy?
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edit: This seems to come up in every thread, but hiding the SSID of you're AP only provides an illusion of security since it's relatively easy to find. The only option for actually security is to use WPA, and then there isn't any reason to have any of these other options that attempt to provide security through obscurity enabled.
You know, I've heard people say this, but I've never seen someone explain why, beyond "haxxors can get through it." The way I understand it is, if someone wants onto your internet bad enough, there's nothing in the world that can stop it.
How, exactly, is it so damn easy to spoof somebody's MAC address, without knowing what that address is?
Why? I'm not asking for a step-by-step guide here, I just can't figure out how guessing somebody's MAC address is any easier than guessing their WPA2 password.
The MAC address is in the packets that are sent so you can detect it and then change you're MAC address to it. I'm slightly unsure of what happens if you actually try to connect to the AP with the same MAC address while the other is connected, but given that most people leave their routers on 24/7 and turn their PCs off the majority of the time that shouldn't be a problem even though I would expect it to work anyway. It's the same thing with hiding the SSID. sure it may not show up in a scan, which actually isn't always true, but you can detect the name by sniffing packets and then enter it manually. Of course this may stop the casual thief that is computer illiterate, but I would expect a simple google search to turn up answers if the person is persistent enough, not to mention that the vast majority of routers support WPA and there are very few reasons to not use it. While on this topic, WEP is basically the as the above two methods of security as it will stop a casual thief, but is now easily breakable.
I doubt that TF2 is using that much bandwidth. I remember doing a calculation for WoW a while ago and and putting in ridiculous figures and getting a max of 5GB a month. You should be able to download a bandwidth monitor and get an average of how much it uses though.
that can eat up bandwith pretty good if you spend an hour or 2 a day watching things.
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Unless you've noticed any cars/vans with large antennas suspiciously parked outside your house for days, the problem is almost certainly coming from within.
Even in an apartment complex you're only likely to be able to use a wireless signal maybe at most two units in any direction. One unit for bigger apartments.
And for research purposes, you can download a copy of Backtrack (a linux live distro) and play around with aircrack-ng to find out how easy it is to spoof a MAC address. There are plenty of tutorials out there on google to get you started.
The header for an 802.11 frame, which contains (source/destination) MAC addresses, is transmitted in the clear. It takes like a minute to sniff data packets to get valid addresses and spoof it.