JD. Brown wrote:
Are wired routers as easily hacked as wireless ones? And how much does it help to change the router password from the default?
The one thing to keep in mind is which type of router,model, whether it's commercial grade or home PC made?
They can be easily hacked, If not kept up to date and you leave the default settings, passwords,etc.
Now, the argument comes into play if you have a wired router, It can be hacked with another comp on the other end of that wire.
Just like a comp with a wireless connectivity, that can be hacked with another wireless Comp; with the data flowing through the air with a secured 128 bit connection between the wireless router and wireless card. Though, It can be hacked with a secured wireless connection. It gets tricky and somewhat tough, sometimes impossible; If properly configured?
There is a lot of angles to cover, before you run wild on the net.
Just make sure you read and cover all of your hardware/software that will be used for your network.
Some router manufacturers are pretty good about keeping their firmware up to date; while others, whom design and build a PC firewall are very damn good at making a extremely thick safe.
JD
I was using BBIagent on an old Cyrix box until something must have changed on the cable modem side and it refused to answer my cable modem ever again, don't know why as another guy is using the identical setup and it works. Now I use Astaro Linux firewall where everything is chrooted and it's impossible to do anything with it other than the allowed admin actions and setups from a designated box on the internal network, it's so tight that the only way I could install another firewall to try was to delete all the partitions and reformat the HD. Other than upgrades, it's been impossible to put any files on to any partition, it won't even allow you as root to handle the floppy drive, it says it doesn't exist, neither does the hard drive. It's about as unhackable as you can get and has that reputation. Astaro are also very much on the ball with updates. The only drawback is they only support PCMCIA wireless, but perhaps a PCI adapter containing a PCMCIA wireless card would work. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====