You should always assume that at all times some bot or idiot is trying to hack into your network. Use strong encryption with RADIUS to greatly reduce the possibility of someone hacking in. Perhaps your network has been touched by windows 10 in which RADIUS/hotspot can help here.
If your network is private and you dont let visitors use your network than you can implement access control lists using whitelists for mac addresses of devices you have.
mac addresses can be spoofed but a whitelist is the easiest method almost every wifi router can do. Pretty sure OpenWRT xhould have RADIUS too and enterprise level routers. On some routers you can bind mac addresses to a user on RADIUS further reducing the chance of a leak unless windows 10 also gives your mac address but the routers will also let you set what time a user can access the network too so you can enable the user only when needed.I haven't tried, but can't mac addresses be spoofed? Granted it would take a clever person to find out a mac address on the whitelist but, if the attacker is a trusted neighbor and a shiftless teenoid, then there's your problem.
RADIUS takes a RADIUS server along with the router encryption. That's a whole level of complication. Most routers don't include RADIUS servers. DD-WRT does, but there's less there than meets the eye. I would describe it as 'nice'.
Turn off WPS and this will not happen.
I have thought about this quite a bit. I have the tools necessary to see if my network is being attacked but the knowledge to expose it.
It would be fantastic is we have a tab in the network tools that helped expose suspicious connections. This would help novices learns how to spot these kind of things.
Then they wouldn't be getting much sleep.Or it would make them become jumpy every single time a random port scan occurred.
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