Newbie to wireless question,
My apartmentbuilding resently changed from wireless with WEP key to these guys: 'SMART ZONE - Internet for Apartment Mansion Dormitory µ?µÑé§ Í?à·ÍÃìà¹çµ Ë?? ?ÒÃì·àÁ?ì á??ªÑè¹ ¤?â´ÁÕà¹ÕÂÁ Ãé?ÍÒËÒà Ãé?¡Òá¿'
If i open my browser now (any browser, any url) i see a webpage asking for a LOGIN & PASSWORD also it says: You are currently connected to SmartZone™ network at V Place (V.Place apartments)
Since i do online payments i really would like to know how safe this new situation is thinking of man in the middle attacks and so!
I use winXP with zonealarm firewall, netstumbler and airsnare Netstumbler shows 4 accesspoints and 2 belong to Vplace i guess because they have ssid with Vplace (green & yellow/grey color and no lock)
If i turn on Airsnare i see many unfriendly MAC addresses but thats also because (i think) i didn't mark other people beside myself as "trusted" or "friendly" Some of the unfriendly ones have the name "router" other ones just an IP On the right/below i see things like: Possible mac spoofing detected, entry does not match known OUI's for some of the unfriendly addresses.
What i really would like to know is about this (new) smartzoneonline.com wireless internet solution, if it is possible to fake/spoof the access to this accesspoint using smartzoneonline.com?
smartzoneonline.com comes without security/encryption (no lock in statusbar) Netstumbler also doesn't show a lock...just green color for accesspoint "Vplace"! Can that be unsafe for me / for them (smartzoneonline.com) / or both?
Does this mean data send from me to accesspoint is always plaintext? (hotmail login etc...) Can unfriendly mac's find out my password for hotmail, yahoo..etc...?
Anything (simple) i can do to be more secure as a newbie? (cannot configure the accesspoint since it isn't mine)
Thanks for all help in advance...
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