Video Guide: Securing Your Wireless Network
A helpful blog entry providing a guide on how to secure your wireless network
The videos walk you through changing the default password on your router. This is a basic first step — there are entire Web sites dedicated to listing the default passwords for wireless devices broken down by vendor and model number.
The page also describes how to set up your router to require an encrypted password to access the network. It covers encryption setup instructions for both the older Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol and the newer Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). Security experts have shown that WEP keys have a weakness that allows them to be cracked in minutes or even seconds by a skilled attacker. WPA can also be cracked, but it is more difficult to do so.
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