can you recommend any (opensource or trusted) android apps to check who’s using your wifi? or any cmd prompt code to search on the desktop?

a small doubt: can anyone hack your computer through WiFi? If so, How to prevent that (or) How to take measures after you think you been hacked?

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      Rule 41 of the internet - there’s always a relevant XKCD comic.

      I’m not sure that the maths in it is correct - I know there’s some criticism of that in particular example but I think it holds up as long as you make it long enough and don’t just use common short words or common phrases. Its also bad if there’s a pattern to your passphrases e.g. only using colours, or sports team mascots, or all words of the same length, etc

      And where possible use MFA (unless it’s SMS based, then I wouldn’t bother - I suspect when businesses offer that they just want to collect your phone number and don’t care about security).

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        It is weak to dictionary attacks far less then a random string is. Each method has advantages and disadvantages.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          Kind of, yes. If they use special characters and numbers, too, dictionary attacks would be far less useful. In the XKCD example above, something like this (Correct@Horse&BatteryStaple8) will be much harder with a dictionary attack. Definitely not impossible, though. Nothing is 100%.

          I used to install and use foreign keyboard languages, but found it nearly impossible to use in some instances (bank sites, older iPhones versions, and so on).