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Six Steps to Protect Your Wireless Networks

by Mukti Sharma on Apr 22, 2009

Six Steps to Protect Your Wireless Networks


If you have a Wi-Fi network at home or in a small office, intruders may be after you, who troll city streets, looking for unprotected wireless networks. It may not just be malicious attackers who cause problems. If you don't change the defaults of your wireless network, a neighbor with the same router make and model might accidentally connect to your network, stealing your bandwidth or reconfiguring your router and network without your knowledge.

Fear not, though. There's plenty you can do to protect yourself.

1) Change your administrator password

Before you do anything else, change the administrator password on your router. Every model of router comes preconfigured with a standard password, and hackers know this. So it's exceedingly easy for someone to hop onto your network, gain full control over its administrative rights and wreak havoc.

2) Stop broadcasting your network's SSID and change its name

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