can you recommend any (opensource or trusted) android apps to check who’s using your wifi? or any cmd prompt code to search on the desktop?
a small doubt: can anyone hack your computer through WiFi? If so, How to prevent that (or) How to take measures after you think you been hacked?
WiFi is really no less secure than wired aside from being harder to keep people from having physical access, and since most home users don’t use any kind of connectivity protection on wired ports it might even be seen as more secure.
Huh? You have to break into my house to get on my LAN and that’s the case for 99% of people. You don’t need to do that with wifi. There is no realm where wired is less secure than wifi.
That’s the point of mentioning the physical access. Yes it’s easier to get at ‘physically’ in that it allows you to reach it through walls, but, if physical access WAS obtained what protections do you have in place for a lan jack? It’s possible to use 802.1x auth or such but for most home users it’s just a case of plug in a cable and you’re part of the network.
Again someone is going to have to break into your house to accomplish this. You have much bigger problems if that happens.
The more realistic approach would be people sitting outside of your house trying to brute force your wireless password, which only works on networks with default or weak passwords.
The odds of someone breaking into your house to use your net are virtually zero. On the other hand people sitting in their cars to high jack wireless happen all the time. Anyone can do it they just need to be in proximity to your house and you’ll never know it’s happening.
Not necessarily. If you have an off the shelf home network, and you have a vulnerable device (smart toaster, smart light bulb, IP camera, unpatched laptop, old iPhone or Android version, unpatched router, etc.), wired or wireless doesn’t make much of a difference. Once one device on your network is compromised, the entire network is compromised. I don’t have to be near you to get that done. Shoot, I don’t even have to be in the same country to get that done. I would say, due to the proximity rule, wifi is less secure since it takes less effort, but only in terms of that one rule.
E: added a couple more examples of common vulnerable devices.
Just log into your routers admin panel and see if there are any online devices online that arent yours? That would be my goto because then you can just block them from the panel?
otherwise via linux cli you can do arp-scan and youll see online devices in your subnet. Theres also a few options to scan different interfaces
Login to your router or wireless access point and check what devices are connected. Then setup mac adress filtering to improve your security, if you can be bothered to have to add your devices mac adresses manually.
mac adresses are easily spoofed though, so it isn’t foolproof.
Also note that mac addresses can change automatically on iOS, because of the Private Wifi Address feature
Couldn’t you just monitor your WiFi at the router level?
Anyway you can use nmap to scan your entire network to find all connected devices. Its not foolproof but its a start
Log on to your router, that will show what’s connected.
