Comments on: Securing your wireless network http://www.spamstopshere.com/blog/2008/03/27/securing-your-wireless-network/ IT and security blog Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Marcus http://www.spamstopshere.com/blog/2008/03/27/securing-your-wireless-network/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Marcus Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:55:55 +0000 http://www.spamstopshere.com/blog/2008/03/27/securing-your-wireless-network/#comment-4 Great article. Very informative. Apparently, without WPA or WPA2 encryption enabled on your wireless network, an attacker can sniff your wireless packets from the air, obtaining your email passwords and other unencrypted data that is sent over your wireless network. I, like many others, I suppose, thought that encryption was on by default when I took the wireless access point out of the box. It's a shame that they're not secured by default. Some people might think, "I don't care if the neighbor shares my bandwidth", but you're sharing more than just your bandwidth. You're sharing your data. Great article. Very informative. Apparently, without WPA or WPA2 encryption enabled on your wireless network, an attacker can sniff your wireless packets from the air, obtaining your email passwords and other unencrypted data that is sent over your wireless network.

I, like many others, I suppose, thought that encryption was on by default when I took the wireless access point out of the box. It’s a shame that they’re not secured by default.

Some people might think, “I don’t care if the neighbor shares my bandwidth”, but you’re sharing more than just your bandwidth. You’re sharing your data.

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