Local Network - Introduction
Nothing can exist without having a local network. At home, work, or any where you go there is a local network if a PC is connected to the internet. There may only be one user connected, but the possibility of more is always looming. Local networks attacks are a tremendously big deal. It’s the difference between an attacker being on the outside of your house and trying to attack you versus already being inside your house. Which poses a bigger threat? Exactly..
Local Networks
People assume that just because they’re the only one plugged into their router that they are safe. They also think that if they aren’t plugged into the internet, they are safe. Those are both laughable. Even if you’re just hooked up to your router and you don’t have internet, if someone else connects to that router via a cable or wireless, then they are automatically on your local network.
In the above example, the four PC’s are connected on the same network. They all plug in to the same router which connects to the internet. Even if you were to take the internet out of the scenario, there are four other PC’s(or any device, laptop, etc) connected on the local network. At that point, each of those devices has a serious advantage of being able to hijack, take over, attack, etc the other devices on its same network.