Well if you think, you stay a long way away from crowded place and might not be targeted by cruel outside wireless hackers, then I guess you may be wrong. Even if your network is detected by a single war-driver, you may be mapped on wigle and be known worldwide.

wiget.net

Wigle is a Wireless Geographic Logging Engine, a Web site that maps data gathered by wardrivers in order to chart the distribution of wireless networks. Now if you go not follow basic wireless security checks then you may be mapped on wiget on one fine day.

Mentioned below are the basic security checks for wireless that must be abided to:

1. Change the router’s default passwords.
2. Change the SSID name and disable SSID broadcast.
3. Setup MAC filters to limit which computers can connect.
4. Turn on WPA or WPA2 encryption.
5. If you are using WPA-PSK, ensure passphrase is 64 character with no dictionary word.
6. Review your wireless logs.
7. Watch for upgrades from the manufacturer.
8. Practice good computer security.

Keep you wi-fi network secured. now you are being scanned by terrorists!!!

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