Chapter 6. Wireless Network Snoops: Lock Down Your Wi-Fi Network
In this chapter
What Is a Wireless Home Network?
Why Wi-Fi Scares Security Experts
The Snoopers: Bandwidth Bandits, Wireless Hackers, and Wardrivers
Damage a Snooper Can Do
Secure Your Wi-Fi with WEP and WPA
Stop the Scottish (and Everyone Else) with MAC Address Filtering
Emergency Lock-down—Dealing with an Attack
Router Security Tweaks that Take 10 Minutes
How to Turn off File Sharing
Wireless networks are everywhere. You might even have one in your home. If you do, did you know you’ve just left an electronic door into your home wide open to anyone who walks by? In this chapter you learn the risks posed by a wireless network and how to lock it down so no one pulls up to the curb outside your ...
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