Pt.1 How secure are your wireless networks home or office??

  A variety of site surveys found that more than half of all wireless networks are wide open and ripe for anyone to gather traffic and even steal sensitive information. Some people mess around with locking down MAC address, but that gets unwieldy and a better solution would be to use WPA2 encryption. WPA2 is far better than other encryption methods that are more easily broken into.

   If you have a wireless network, make sure to hide your SSID (service set identifier), or at least change its name to something common. All wireless routers should have obscure IDs when they announce themselves to the world. Rather than using a name that makes it clear who owns the router or that can divulge your location, such as “Acme Systems, here on the 4th floor” or the product name like “Netgear,” use something innocuous like “wireless” or “router1″ that doesn’t give away any critical information. In my last apartment, I had neighbors who used their apartment numbers for their IDs, making it very easy to figure out who’s router was where. Still to this day they still have names placed on their wireless SSID!!!