Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[shoutcrown]

Hello everybody!

Well I am using Puppy Linux (I completely deleted Windows XP). Because Puppy Linux is able to do what I want. By the way I am using Lucid and Slacko Puppy Linux, because of some little differences

You know?, I never before had Internet Connection at home. (I usually went to Public Internet...). But a few days ago Movistar installed Internet Connection to my laptop (wired connection to TP-LINK modem which also has WIFI)

So, this is new for me and I need to increase my security. Reading the user guide I could change my SSID, WPA-PSK password (the official webpage only shows two authentication types: WEP and WPA-PSK; two encryption: TKP and AES), also I activated the mac address filter and I have turned on the Firewall

But the user guide doesn't have deep information about internet security, So:

- Can anybody give me detailed information about internet security?

- Is it possible that anybody could get my password?

- Which is the strongest authentication and encryption type?

- how can i know if anybody else is connected to my Router?, if so how can i disconnect them?

Thank you very much for reading and helping me!

Bye

[Lobster]

Using Puppy you are already safe

Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect himself from cyber-criminals when banking online. The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the banking site and the second was to avoid Microsoft Windows: 'If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux boot up disk - such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours. Puppy Linux is a nice small distribution that boots up fairly quickly. It gives you an operating system which is perfectly clean and operates only in the memory of the computer and is a perfectly safe way of doing Internet banking'.


Turn on the firewall
the rest is common sense
security done
If you are a budding tin hat . . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/security

Wpa2 is the most secure wifi

[nooby]

[Barkin]

don't use a word which is in a dictionary as a key/password.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_attack

http://howsecureismypassword.net/

create a good but memorable password using MD5 generator

MD5("puppy+salt") = 3e646fbe529c65d4d4be511e926c1bb4

[postfs1]

[nooby]

I fail to link to it directly. it is a bit down on the page. Go here
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120416#news

[nooby]

Thanks to shoutcrown for the PM. Sadly due to personal circumstances
I don't have time to answer and exchange views on Security because
I know too little. I contributed to this thread in hope a lot of persons
who do more than me would share their best advices.

I know nothing about DoudouLinux but would be cool to get feedback on
if what they write there is as they say or if they are too optimistic.

Can puppy learn from their approach and how? Not to cripple Puppy
but to have one very secure puppy that maybe is too restricted to use
for others uses but to use for safe browsing and then one shut down
and reboot into a normal puppy when one need those features?

Shoutcrown has started a personal question that is related here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77746

I did not write there because my long experience is that if I write something
then none else get active in that thread. So to be polite I only link to it here. Hope that helps.

I share your worry shoutcrown but have no time to get deep into it.
Hope you get good answers if that fails do use the search I link to
and put in keywords like security and wap wifi wireless and what is needed to find your answers and give feedback in that thread you started.

[shoutcrown]

I really appreciate your effort to share my "post"

I am using Puppy Linux, it's an excellent OS (i am sure the other distros are the best too). Like you, there are many things I don't know and can't do, but I already know the basic usage. So on now I can show and share this practical knowledge I have, to people close to me...

Now I have internet connection at home, and it is better to learn and do more questions

thank you again, Best wishes!

[8-bit]

When you asked how to tell if someone was online using your routers WIFI connection, you can access the router's setup page and there should be a section that will show what PCs are connected.
At least both my Linksys and Quest routers have that feature.

Maybe that will help.
At my home, it showed me just what PCs were connected using both WIFI and wired connections.

Also, be sure to change the default password for your router so that it cannot be accessed remotely easily.
I only say this because I can access my router via WIFI knowing the username and password.

So if you left the default of username- admin and password of - password, you are leaving yourself open.

[shoutcrown]

Hi! 8-bit,

Thank you!.

Yeah, Now I am watching which options shows the Router web page. As all of you say, there is a section where I can see which devices are connected...

Nevertheless there is a question I forgot to make: Which are the more secure characters for a key: ASCII or Hexadecimal?

Because using ASCII I can write symbols like @, #, etc., but Hexadecimal only admit numbers and letters from A-F

BYE

[puppy_apprentice]

check info about passwords on this page (from Services menu):
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

[shoutcrown]

Hi puppy-apprentice!

that page test passwords too

bye

[Lobster]

password generation
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=316884#316884

For all you budding tin hats
Why not order a Raspberry Pi
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppi
and create
a password generator and changer?

Basically this would log into all your password protected services
Maybe once a day, with the previous password and change it.
The program would then print out the passwords (possibly in braille) for you to type in when requiring access.

That should keep you occupied for a while . . .

Hope that or link is of interest

Puppy <> FUD
Educating Penguins

[Barkin]

[Lobster]