Comments on: Protecting Your IP Camera from the Neighborhood Network http://www.ipcameraguru.com/success-support/support/protecting-your-ip-camera-from-the-neighborhood-network/ Wed, 19 May 2010 19:20:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Levy http://www.ipcameraguru.com/success-support/support/protecting-your-ip-camera-from-the-neighborhood-network/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Brian Levy Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:56:33 +0000 http://www.ipcameraguru.com/?p=111#comment-6 A very excellent and informative article. As CCTV News has stated, even WPA2 can now be hacked. WEP has unfortuntely been decimated as far as securing a network is concerned as even a neophyte can hack it with a variety of easy to access tools. WPA2, however, is still pretty hard to crack. It takes a long time to hack it and you need to be more than an amatuer hacker. Since WPA2 uses TKIP which is based on rotating keys, it makes it a lot more difficult to break into (WEP lacks this feature). Additionally, there are enterprise versions of WPA2 which I would feel pretty confident about using if I had a long and complex key and I am using the password protection on my cameras. Changing Ports is not a very useful strategy since you can use a port scanner to find out which services are running. I agree with CCTV-NEWS that MAC filtering would be somewhat useless. I guess it all comes down to a matter of putting as many walls in front of a hacker. Brian Levy blog.herocctv.com A very excellent and informative article. As CCTV News has stated, even WPA2 can now be hacked. WEP has unfortuntely been decimated as far as securing a network is concerned as even a neophyte can hack it with a variety of easy to access tools. WPA2, however, is still pretty hard to crack. It takes a long time to hack it and you need to be more than an amatuer hacker. Since WPA2 uses TKIP which is based on rotating keys, it makes it a lot more difficult to break into (WEP lacks this feature). Additionally, there are enterprise versions of WPA2 which I would feel pretty confident about using if I had a long and complex key and I am using the password protection on my cameras.

Changing Ports is not a very useful strategy since you can use a port scanner to find out which services are running. I agree with CCTV-NEWS that MAC filtering would be somewhat useless. I guess it all comes down to a matter of putting as many walls in front of a hacker.

Brian Levy
blog.herocctv.com

]]> By: cctv-news http://www.ipcameraguru.com/success-support/support/protecting-your-ip-camera-from-the-neighborhood-network/comment-page-1/#comment-5 cctv-news Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:05:36 +0000 http://www.ipcameraguru.com/?p=111#comment-5 Hello. One additional thing: SSID broadcast. Turning it of makes network a little more safer, but in fact only for amateurs, just like some steps above. In my opinion the most important thing is to change default passwords in cameras and network hardware. Of course password should be strong enough. MAC could be cloned, SSID is not hidden in fact (could be reveiled by software), WPA2 could be cracked. Regards. Hello.

One additional thing: SSID broadcast. Turning it of makes network a little more safer, but in fact only for amateurs, just like some steps above. In my opinion the most important thing is to change default passwords in cameras and network hardware. Of course password should be strong enough. MAC could be cloned, SSID is not hidden in fact (could be reveiled by software), WPA2 could be cracked.

Regards.

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