Many people wonder what data the router collects in public Wi-Fi networks or in rented apartments and to whom can they be available? We checked if there is such a threat.
About a possible leakage of data when hacking networks or potential tracking parts of traffic The owner router write Both ordinary Internet users and experts. Such texts say that access can be obtained both for the history of the search and list of visited sites, and to passport and other personal data. For example, in 2019 with Easy The Wi-Fi Sapsan Wi-Fi Network was hacked, in which the Russian Railways company kept information about passengers. A significant number of publications concerns the parent control And how his teenagers Go around; whether the router keeps the story of the search and visits, Dedicated Dozens of SEOS. Separately, experts Mark The vulnerability of networks in hotels, and the “Kaspersky Laboratory” is extremely does not recommend Use Wi-Fi points rented through Airbnb or other apartments services.
All of us the usual Wi-Fi Roter (router) Designed for data transmission in different types. In simple words, it provides data transfer between devices and Internet connected to it. By default, the router does not save the history of Internet surfing, but this is only by default. The more modern the model or firmware of the router, the more data and functions are available to the administrator of network connections launched using the device.
So, the router with the base firmware produced in the first half of the 2010s, most likely, will only give the administrator the minimum data on the volume of traffic and will allow you to configure the simplest parental control-to limit the time during which access to the Internet will appear on the child's gadget. Relatively new device, with the firmware of 2020, will make it possible to see the full list of pages visited during the connection.
The owner of the router can familiarize himself in detail with the content that was interested in the user if he worked according to the unprotected http protocol (sites without a secure connection HTTPS are still not uncommon). To do this, just go to the System Journal. The detailed history of actions on secure sites will be inaccessible - only domains will be celebrated in the journal, and the information about what you were looking for on the Internet, where you were bought and what porn you watched is not saved by the router. Some models are also allow See the statistics on the most visited sites from a certain gadget. It is worth noting that the options provided by the manufacturer were created for the most part for parental or corporate control and do not mean tracking, for example, banking operations. This information is not stored in the router’s journal and cannot leak, unless you crossed the phishing link or if the data transfer protocol was not replaced by an attacker.
The problem of open (not protected by password) and public networks is that often it is often easily hacking: administrators do not always pay sufficient security attention. So, in 2017 in Argentina was Hamper The network in one of the Starbucks coffee houses, and the customer devices (without the knowledge of the owners) are mined to minute the Monero cryptocurrency. The same applies to networks in hotels, after all, knowing the password from the network and having the necessary equipment, the hacker can easily attack MITM (Man in the Middle - "Man in the middle"). There are several types of such an attack: for example, an attacker can create a twin network (a network with a name identical to the one to which the device is connected automatically) or change the settings of the public access point so that the traffic goes through the unit controlled by the fraudster. With a MITM attack, the cracker gets access to all sent data, and sometimes to data on connected devices.
Wi-Fi networks in rented apartments and apartments are also quite easy prey for hackers. When installing a router, not all owners think about the need to change the factory password or disable the possibility of remote access to the settings. In this situation, the attacker is enough to connect once even to the network securely password and reconfigure it. As a result, if the fraudster wants, he will know everything about the insufficiently protected traffic of all the following residents.
Thus, common fears are not in vain - even you yourself can partially analyze traffic through your home router without additional programs, what can we say about criminals. Actually, the warnings of experts are connected with this: do you know who controls the network to which you are connecting? And if not, is it not better to use a mobile network? It is hardly possible to completely abandon Wi-Fi, but you can avoid open networks, connection and transmission without VPN data through networks in hotels, on rented apartments-wherever you did not set up the router yourself and are not sure of its security. When the VPN included in the System Journal, only the IP data, which was assigned to you during the session, will be included. At the same time, it is worth remembering that this is only part of the safe behavior.
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