| Have you recently gone wireless? If you have a | | | | and works (loosely) like a password.Unfortunately, |
| wireless network at home or in the office, it is | | | | most wireless access points transmit their SSIDs |
| critical to have it secured. Wireless networks are | | | | by default, which is pretty much like standing in |
| prone to attacks from outsiders - perhaps even | | | | the street and shouting your bank card PIN. |
| more so than with wired networks. This article | | | | Unless you have equipment that requires the |
| shows how you can implement 3 techniques to | | | | access point to broadcast the SSID, turn this |
| secure a given wireless network.1. Disable | | | | feature off. If you do leave it on, change the |
| Broadcast SSID | | | | SSID to something other than the default.2. Turn |
| One of the key things to do is to secure a | | | | on WEP |
| wireless network is to disable broadcast SSID. | | | | Another thing to do is to turn on WEP, and use |
| WiFi WLANs identify themselves with a service | | | | 128-bit keys. |
| set identifier (SSID), which names the network | | | | |