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