The latest wireless routers have WPA security features that are a cut above the older WEP encryption techniques. Watch the video to understand the difference between WPA security and WEP security and why WPA is better.

Why you should protect your wireless network with WPA

A gang using easily available software break into a WEP protected wireless network and find out what a surfer has been up to as well as having access to his computer and his internet connection.

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With the great convenience and flexibility wireless computer networks offer, consider the information below in your quest to keep your own wireless network secure.

Wireless Network Security

Wireless networks technologies have been dramatically improved by the popularity of third generation (3G) wireless networks, wireless LANs, Bluetooth, and sensor networks. However, security is a major concern for wide deployments of …

White Paper: Introduction To Wireless Networking

We are all familiar with highly connected wireless networks such as mobile phone networks, but concerns about reliability, performance, and security have kept this core networking technology from making its way to the shop floor. …

QNAP NVR-1012 Wireless Network Surveillance Kit

Today Benchmark Reviews will be taking a look at a new product that hopes to reduce not only the cost barrier of the home/small office security system, but also virtually eliminate the installation hassle, the NVR-1012 from Qnap.

Take care of your internet security with a wireless network …

A good wireless network security tutorial can put you in a better position to take care of your security needs. You’re first and foremost concern starts with your settings. You need to know which settings need to be changed from the …

A new Trojan horse masquerading as a video ” codec ” required to view content on certain Web sites tries to change key settings on the victim’s Internet router so that all of the victim’s Web traffic is routed through servers controlled by the attackers. According to researchers contacted by Security Fix , recent versions of the ubiquitous ” Zlob ” Trojan (also known as DNSChanger ) will check to see if the victim uses a wireless or wired hardware router. If so, it tries to guess the password needed to administer the router by consulting a built-in list of default router username/password combinations . The DNS hijack occurs, he said, during the installer program, so by the time the user sees the fake codec installer screen, the malware has already attempted to change DNS settings on the victim’s router. I reached out to researchers at Sunbelt Software to check Sloss’s data, and Sunbelt was able to confirm that the malware successfully changed the DNS settings on a Linksys router (model BEFSX41), pulled straight out of the factory box (with the default username and password). read more

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