Security For Wireless Routers - Not Wireless Secure - What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Security For Wireless Routers - Not Wireless Secure - What's the Worst That Could Happen?

With the ability to walk in your home or office without wires is a great feature to have. The freedom to move your home from room to room or even sitting under the palm of your garden on a hot sunny day, shows that there is no return from the wireless. It is not only the freedom to be mobile, but also from free house wired with cable and not through the perforated walls, shows another area in which you give to the mobile phone technology too well. However, becauseof the nature of the technology, wireless has a number of security issues we must be aware of.

A neighbour, hacker or someone just by your home can easily detect your wireless signals and attempt to connect to your wireless access point. This is because wireless uses radio frequency and data travels through the Air, though they do not need physical access to your router.

So let's get to the point. How bad could it be not impleMenting any wireless security?

The common stressing points we hear everyday regarding wireless security is the ability that an evil doer can easily sniff data, coming and going to your wireless access point. Also they will have the ability to use your router to browse the web just as you do... using your bandwidth.

It doesn't really sound that bad... Does it?

Well how about if your neighbours or anyone on the street outside your home were using Your wireless access point and participation in illegal downloads, visit illegal websites and usually on the Internet for criminal activity. Who do you think would get the blame? If the FBI busting through the door, and you have to think Fast, your children are not as innocent as they pretend to be, you can go down a mountain for you at this point.

Download illegal and criminal activities that had been occurring from the house next door, under your ID. Theirwere using your access point which from the ISP point of view was coming from your home.

To add to this, in a couple of months time when your bank stateMent arrives through the door showing you spent £3000 on a new TV, as well as purchasing a set of Golf clubs, it may just all be too late by then. A hacker could have easily sat outside your home and sniffed your bank details or any other confidential details you may have used when online, all from the comfort of their car or home.  All they need is a wireless laptop to do this, and sit within a range of your wireless router, in other words somewhere outside your house!

Now this also goes for businesses with wireless access points as well and not just for home users. In fact it is so much more crucial for businesses because a hacker can break into their network via the access point, hacking into company confidential data!

Therefore wireless security today is crucial for all the reasons above. Identity theft today is on the rise, and hackers will go the distance looking for insecure wireless access points. For this reason you should take the time and ensure you have a secure wireless network.

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