[SOLVED] Van parked outside. Check if hacking?

[aklein21]

Hi,
There was a van with blacked out windows parked outside my house in the middle of the night for an hour. I called the police (at about an hour of him sitting there in the middle of the road with everyone driving around him) and a minute later he pulled out and drove off.

Can I check if there were any attempts to hack my wifi? Are there tools or logs in the router/access point?

 

[Shoomer]

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not trying to hack you. Probably the CIA/Russians/Martians.

 

[The Paladin]

log into your router, and check your admin logs, but I think your paranoid thinking someone cares about your wifi.
if you are, just set it to not broadcast the SSID and they wont know it is there, and set your security to only let MAC addresses you approve to connect to your network, so even if they figure out your password is " 123godmode" their mac address will not be in the allowed table and not let them go any further. simple security that almost all routers provide now a days. and then you can sleep well knowing some black van in the street is more likely about a drug deal than trying to hack your wifi.

 

[bill001g]

A actual hacker will not be slowed down even a tiny bit by turning off the broadcast or use mac security. It is trivial to spoof a mac address compared to actually cracking encryption keys. Part of the method to crack wifi keys requires the ability to spoof the mac.

They would not use that method to crack the keys anyway. They would capture traffic go away load it into their supper computer and then come back a couple years later when they had cracked the keys. Nobody who is a actual hacker actually tries to brute force log into stuff since many routers log and if someone had their router send email alerts it does not take long to get caught if you are sitting there trying passwords.

The most popular method to get past security is to hack the people instead. Much simpler to scam someone into giving up a password than to try to break encryption.

Way too many people watching tv thinking you can click a couple keys and magically break into something in a couple second.

 

[jsmithepa]

Is the Ex!

 

[failboat]

I would recommend using a password that can't be brute forced and a guest wifi that can only access the internet. The type of encryption that your wifi uses is important to know if it's flawed. Keep your router updated. If it's EOL replace it. Passwords to anything on your LAN should be strong as well. router web gui, SSH, etc. Most desktop OS have a firewall on by default and SSH server isn't installed. You can use nmap -sV to see what's running on LAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-RbOKanYs

 

[aklein21]

Thanks