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SECURITY! "Intruder" on Telstra-BigPond 4G Advanced II AirCard 790S
Hi I really wanted this to appear under Security, but the website directed me here so if mods, you decide I'm in the wrong place, I did try. As shown, our family has a Netgear, BigPond Wi-Fi ...
Oh dear! It's fess-up time.
At my wife's suggestion, I checked the bottom of a little device sitting on the tv set.
Could it have been that? she asked. Today, very late in the peace, I checked it out. The device is a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player. On its back, of course, is its product information sheet - with its MAC number listed on it! The same number as the "intruder".
I am presently very red-faced. Sorry to have been a time-waster, everyone! I live and learn.
:smileyembarrassed:
ausgumbie
Hello ausgumbie
I would change the wireless password on your hot spot as well. And you do not have any external hard drives hooked up to your or your wife's devices that is what western digital makes is hard drives.
DarrenM
Thanks Darren
Sorry tardy with reply - other issues delayed me.
Info re Western Digital - many thanks. Got me reading. I noted they also make MyBook which can be modified to do a number of things. (e.g. - "Hacking WD MyBook World Ed" - http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum:recent-posts). Do you know - from your own knowledge - whether someone could use such a device (or similar) like a computer to launch attacks on people's WiFi routers/hotspots?
Also, this being a Netgear site, any comment on the AC790S and the password length (and mix of letters, numerals, symbols) it allows would be appreciated. However, I'll also make that a separate question to the forums.
Many thanks
ausgumbie
Oh dear! It's fess-up time.
At my wife's suggestion, I checked the bottom of a little device sitting on the tv set.
Could it have been that? she asked. Today, very late in the peace, I checked it out. The device is a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player. On its back, of course, is its product information sheet - with its MAC number listed on it! The same number as the "intruder".
I am presently very red-faced. Sorry to have been a time-waster, everyone! I live and learn.
:smileyembarrassed:
ausgumbie