The majority of information posted on the internet about wireless networking precautions is mainly directed towards corporations. However, wireless security is also important for the home because if your internet is unsecure than anyone who is close by can spy on what you are doing online. “Depending on how your home network is configured, someone could even gain full access to your computer’s hard drive over an unsecured wireless network.” In addition, even if you are not using your internet, your neighbors could be using your wireless connection. If they decide to perform some illegal behavior while on your internet connection, it can be traced back to your home network.
Wireless networks are almost available anywhere and most of them are insecure. There are also many hackers out there that are aware of the unsecure networks and use them for their own benefit. In order to secure your wireless connection, users need to use encryption, which is similar to a secret code only you and your family will know. If your wireless access point allows you to disable your identifier then do so, so that it will be harder for you to be identified by hackers. Another step to secure wireless connection is to limit the access to your access point to which computers are allowed to use it.
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