Securing network from attacks

In order to prevent our network from preceding cracking methods explained throughout the chapter, we'll need to access the settings page for your router. Each router has a web page where user can modify the settings for the router, and it's usually at the IP of the router. First we're going get the IP of my computer or my device, and we are going to run ifconfig wlan0 command; as seen in the following screenshot, the highlighted part is the IP of the computer:

Now open the browser, and navigate to 192.168.0.1; for this example, the IP of the computer is 25. Usually, the IP of the router is the first IP of the ...

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