{"id":15221,"date":"2013-06-19T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:59:40","slug":"ios-generated-hotspot-passwords-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/ios-generated-hotspot-passwords-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops! Those iOS-Generated Hotspot Passwords Are Really Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Accessing the Internet when you\u2019re on the road can be a tricky thing. Using Wi-Fi can be a source of risk, especially if you\u2019re in a well-populated area<\/a>. So, you tether your iPhone to your laptop and surf the web that way instead. That\u2019s safer, right? Well, if you didn\u2019t change the Wi-Fi password from the one generated by iOS, it might not give you much more protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You probably know a thing or two about how not to create a good password<\/a>, and that using simple words found in a dictionary is definitely not a great way to make a strong password. It looks like someone creating the automatically generated passwords for the WiFi hotspot option didn\u2019t get that memo. Rather than using a more random assortment of characters, they opted to use a fairly limited list of dictionary words. It\u2019s certainly better than no password at all, but not by a whole lot.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the end of the world, though. You can still have strong protection for your hotspot; you just need to change the password<\/a> to a more secure one<\/a> of your own devising.<\/p>\n

photo credit: CarbonNYC<\/a> via photopin<\/a> cc<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accessing the Internet when you\u2019re on the road can be a tricky thing. Using Wi-Fi can be a source of risk, especially if you\u2019re in a well-populated area. So, you tether your iPhone to your laptop and surf the web that way instead. That\u2019s safer, right? Well, if you didn\u2019t change the Wi-Fi password from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[465,69,353,96],"class_list":["post-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","tag-hotspot","tag-ios","tag-password-security","tag-passwords"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t