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Edwood

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#269753 6-Apr-2020 13:25
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I had a minor panic this morning that may, or may not have been induced by some kind of network intrusion.

 

I've ended up factory resetting my router (HG659b), and maybe it's just my heightened sense of awareness, but it seems very odd that I'm using an unsecured connection to the router itself!??

 

I've searched the forums and the google and come up empty.

 

Is there any way to enable https for access to the HG659b ?

 

 

 

Thx!

 

edit: another idea that may work is using the guest network as the primary, MAC address filtering the main network, and only ever using that one for router admin

 

 


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  #2455814 6-Apr-2020 14:17
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Hi, so as Runningman says, assuming you were using WPA2 all your traffic over wireless is encrypted by WPA2, even when you are connecting to the HTTP interface via wireless. The only time it would be in the clear is if someone was snooping on a wired connection, and even then many of these types of devices will hash the password when you login, which is not particularly strong but still its a long stretch that someone managed to get your wireless password.

 

Cyril 


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