How Do You Secure A Wireless LAN?
A wireless LAN affords you the luxury of conducting business in a bathrobe in the middle of the day while watching Oprah. After performing hundreds of transactions, you traipse to the kitchen to make a sandwich. As you bite into your sandwich, an amateur hacker downloads your bank login and password and proceeds to do the same for your credit cards and personal information. Technology savvy or not, securing a wireless LAN is an essential step in leading a wireless life. Change your administrative username and password upon your first login. The same default username and password is given to everyone for the same model router. This is your first line of defense, as any amateur hacker knows that hardly anyone changes their default username and password. Upgrade your Wifi encryption from the outdated WEP encryption standard to the highly secure WPA2 standard. Microsoft users will need to download WPA2 Hotflix for Windows XP. Additionally, the wireless card driver may need to be updated. O
