Re: Please help us with a fraud situation

On May 28, 2:22 am, Burkhard Ott <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Tue, 27 May 2008 20:00:26 -0700 schrieb irfansmith:

How can I set up a  really secure internet connection in my home ?

You won't have a 100% secure connection.

I use a Windows XP - wireless laptop to access the  internet  I have
in my home.
We use Comcast cable.
We have a WPA secure internet. We use a Netgear Rangemax MIMO
and the Comcast modem.

Somehow some people have managed to get both our credit card numbers
and bank account numbers and even driving license number.

1. check you computers for malware
2. check who has access to you network (people) and how does they handle
with sensoble data
3. check what you throw to the garbage (receipts, old
bills etc.)

I don't think you loose your informations only on the internet connection.

cheers

I agree,

You probably did not loose all this info due to your wireless
connection. your info probably got nabbed because someone hacked a
merchant you use, or someone who uses your computer from within your
house opened an email attached which contained malware like maybe a
key logger on your computer.

1 Make sure you have active and up-to-date Anti Virus/Anti Spyware
installed and are doing regular scheduled scans.
2 So your using WPA. What encryption/authenication mechanisim are you
using. IE TKIP/AES for encryption or Pre-share or Radius for
authentication?
3 Wireless will never be 100% secure. Due to the fact that your
broadcasting data over the air it will always have a hicher risk of
attack
4 Hide Your SSID
5 Don't use identifyable comment for your SSID. IE, Dont make your
SSID your house address or your family name or anything else that can
link your house/name to your wireless connection. it makes it to easy
for someone to camp outside your house and hack away.
6 Dont open attachments or emails from anyone you dont know
7 Use a Statefull Inspection Firewall. Packet switching firewalls do
not track the state of the data.
8 Disable services you dont need. If your not running a web server
uninstall IIS.
9 Dont respond to any email which asks you to verify your username/
passwords, banking information, or any other personal info which
appear to be coming from your banks fraud department. Banks will never
ask you for your passwords in an email. If you get information like
that call the bank directly to confirm if there is an issue.
10 Stop using cordless phones to communicate personal information
during telephone conversations unless the conversation is encrypted.
If you ever want to know what your neighbors really think of you, go
out to radio shack and spend 50.00 on a police/fire scanner. Depending
on the frequency your cordless phone is using many of these types of
scanners can also pickup cordless phone conversations and play them
out the speaker in plain text.
11 If you want 100% security on your pc then erase the data on the
computer and unplug it and put in a box. there is no such thing as a
100% secure computer because they are inherently at risk due to
physical and logical theft. As soon as you plug it into the internet
that risk is elevated.
12 For god sakes if your using microsoft wallet....stop it. Dont click
on the box to remember your usename and passwords either.

good luck.
.

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