Chapter 15. Implementing Wireless Security
In This Chapter
- Specifying a New Administrative Password
- Positioning the Access Point for Maximum Security
- Encrypting Wireless Signals with WPA
- Disabling Network SSID Broadcasting
- Changing the Default SSID
- Enabling MAC Address Filtering
- From Here
Computer veterans may be familiar with the term wardialing, a black-hat hacker technique that involves automatically calling thousands of telephone numbers to look for any that have a modem attached. (You might also know this term from the 1983 movie War Games, now a classic in computer cracking circles. In the movie a young cracker, Matthew Broderick, uses wardialing to look for games and bulletin board systems. However, he inadvertently ends up with a ...
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