Corinex Global ADSL2+ manual Appendices Firewalls

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Appendices

7) Firewalls

Once a hacker has broken into your wireless network, if it is connected to your wired network, they’ll have access to that, too. This means that the hacker has effectively used your wireless network as a backdoor through your firewall, which you’ve put in place to protect your network from just this kind of attack via the Internet.

You can use the same firewall technology to protect your wired network from hackers coming in through your wireless network as you did for the Internet. Rather than connecting your access point to an unprotected switch, swap those out for a router with a built-in firewall. The router will show the access point com- ing in through its WAN port and its firewall will protect your network from any transmissions entering via your wireless network. PCs unprotected by a firewall router should at least run firewall software, and all PCs should run up-to-date antiviral software.

B. WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is often looked upon as a panacea for wireless

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security concerns. This is overstating WEP’s ability. Again, this can only provide enough security to make a hacker’s job more difficult.

WEP encryption implementation was not put in place with the 802.11 standard. This means that there are about as many methods of WEP encryption as there are providers of wireless networking products. In addition, WEP is not completely secure. One piece of information still not encrypted is the MAC address, which hackers can use to break into a network by spoofing (or faking) the MAC address.

Programs exist on the Internet that are designed to defeat WEP. The best known of these is AirSnort. In about a day, AirSnort can analyze enough of the wireless transmissions to crack the WEP key. Just like a dictionary-building attack, the best prevention for these types of programs is by not using static settings, periodically changing WEP keys, SSID, etc.

There are several ways that WEP can be maximized:

a)Use the highest level of encryption possible

b)Use multiple WEP keys

c)Change your WEP key regularly

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Corinex Global ADSL2+ manual Appendices Firewalls

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