How to secure wifi?

[kali_kishte]

Is there a way to secure your home dives and network when you are out cruising to get rid of hacking attempts? The way/method/app/technique should not be for a techie person.
TIA

[Brian.D]

By using a password with 25 alphanumeric and special characters, you increase the chance of not being hacked, save next to turning off your system. The next thing would be encrypting your system, completely.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by kali_kishte

Is there a way to secure your home dives and network when you are out cruising to get rid of hacking attempts? The way/method/app/technique should not be for a techie person.
TIA

The easiest way is to turn it all off. Routers/network, computers...all systems.

[MarkSF]

Yes, turn the computers off and unplug the wi-fi router and modem.

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by kali_kishte

Is there a way to secure your home dives and network when you are out cruising to get rid of hacking attempts? The way/method/app/technique should not be for a techie person.
TIA

sure, with a password

no big bad computer hacker is looking at hacking a boat wifi

[AKA-None]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

sure, with a password



no big bad computer hacker is looking at hacking a boat wifi

No but children do

[ttex]

Just put a good password. It needs to be a gibberish password not an actual word or your birthday or something lame like that.

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by AKA-None

No but children do

ah, the russian anchor out/marina boat kids

got it

[Montanan]

Try encrypting your password.

[Joh.Ghurt]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

no big bad computer hacker is looking at hacking a boat wifi

Not true, this can happen specially on yachts 30m upwards where there could be many juicy results.

For smaller yachts, the risk is low and if it happens, worst case the mobile volume is gone.

[thomm225]

Passwords are pretty easy to break if a hacker wants to break one.

They can use a Brute Force Attack or Rainbow Table Attack which is why most companies use a two factor log in.

Turning your systems off though will do the job.

[ttex]

anybody with the yacht big enough to have anything on board that a hacker actually wants doesn't need to come on to a forum to find out how to protect himself.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by ttex

anybody with the yacht big enough to have anything on board that a hacker actually wants doesn't need to come on to a forum to find out how to protect himself.

Its probably not what's onboard that the hacker would be looking for.

It would be more like personnel information, account numbers, credit card numbers, birth dates/SSN, etc, etc

[Jdege]

Originally Posted by ttex

Just put a good password. It needs to be a gibberish password not an actual word or your birthday or something lame like that.

[Brian.D]

Unless there really is something of REAL value, a hacker will not try to get in if the password is strong. This is an example of a strong password...

nfGWNe-pW5a*rkLYjd3ZwD96*

With a password tester, the above example to hack will take...2 trillion trillion trillion years