If you have a wireless network, it is important to protect yourself from freeloaders, drive-by hackers, and other unwanted users of your wifi network. There are several options you can set to make your wireless network and PC safer.
Suggestions:
- When you encrypt your wifi network, your default setting is to encrypt your network with WEP, an encryption standard which is so easily hacked, that it is often regarded as little better than having no encryption at all. Instead, upgrade your wireless network to the much stronger WPA2 protection standard.
- Many hackers simply drive around neighborhoods looking for wifi networks entitled "default" or "Linksys" in order to identify who has not taken even basic steps to protect their wireless network. Avoid sending this obvious beacon to hackers by taking one minute to change your wi-fi network's name.
- Not letting hackers know that your wifi network exists at all by hiding your SSID broadcast and implementing MAC address filtering can dramatically limit outside access to your network. Remember that a hacker will almost always take the path of least resistance, so by stopping your SSID broadcasting you'll cause hackers to move on and look elsewhere for easier targets.
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