Secure your Wireless Router
by Neal Fisch in security
When setting up a wireless network at home, I was surprised
to be able to connect to my neighbor's unsecured wireless router. Not only
could I have used his bandwidth for free, but had I been so inclined, I could
have used the connection for illegal activities. If the police came looking, he
may not have been able to prove the activity didn't come from one of his
computers. Properly securing wireless is not hard. Look in the manual for
changing the SSID to something unique, turning on WPA (avoid WEP) for
authentication and TKIP for encryption, and using MAC address filtering.
