Tag: MAC address

I wanted to get notified of any new machines connecting to my local network so that I could be reasonably sure there would be no unauthorised devices connecting wirelessly to use my network for unknown and potentially malicious purposes. I therefore wrote a simple script to detect new MAC addresses appearing on the network and notify me accordingly. The script requires nmap to be installed and should ideally be run from cron with the output going to a valid email account. The script can be obtained from my GitHub.