With wireless networking becoming the easiest and most economical way to set up a home network, I get lots of questions about how to make sure it’s secure. Here are some tips for securing your wireless router/access point and computers with wireless adapters:
Change the defaults. Wireless routers come with a preset administrator password and SSID [...]
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Most people take for granted the security of their computers connection to the outside world. And in many homes and offices this is a reasonably good assumption if security precautions are taken to secure the network. But things change when someone with a wireless laptop computer visits a local public “hotspot”, perhaps at the local [...]
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Wireless computers and routers use radio waves to comunicate. Those waves are strong enough to carry outside your house. If your network is unprotected, your information could be hacked. Many intruders already know this. They’ll drive through neighborhoods searching for stray signals and try access your network and borrow your Internet connection. Hackers search for [...]
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