Re: [PLUG] protecting against wifi attacks

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Probably the first thing I'd check is if one of your neighbors has
their wifi on the same channel you're using. Have you tried switching
channels?

Walt

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 09:58:47PM -0400, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
> I am using DD-WRT and have things locked down.  I am experiencing
> intermittent outages that I believe may be due to attacks going on in the
> building, it may be nothing, but wired Internet works fine, and we have
> neighbors with hackerish Wi-Fi hotspot names, so I suspect something
> phishy.  Does anyone have a recommendation for an intro Wi-Fi forensics on
> Linux?  I have never looked for an attack out of thin air, but I am
> comfortable with things like tcpdump and wireshark.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Michael Lazin
> 
> .. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.

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