Are you a Wi-Fi user? You should read this
How secure is your Wi-Fi connection? Do you have any security measures set up to protect your connection? If not, then right now, someone could be accessing it illegally to download porn, or to send out spam emails. Sure you have not let anyone touch your notebook, and you are very careful about your passwords and stuff, but there are a lot of people all around who can still get through and steal your connection from right under your nose.
There has been a lot of talk about “Wardriving” — a popular practice where people drive by residences to see if there is an unguarded Wi-Fi connection, that they can use. But that is what the amateurs do. With a little help from a signal enhancer, available at any Radioshack, someone can break into your Wi-Fi from 50 miles away.
With so much power at one’s disposal, think of how much you can lose with an unguarded Wi-Fi set up. Your identity, your password, your money, and your night’s sleep.
So what do you do to protect your Wi-Fi?
Mcafee is right now engaged in creating a free Wi-Fi vulnerability spotter called the Mcafee Wi-Fi scan. The product is in its beta stage of development. So it should be out in the market in some time from now.
Linksys, in collaboration with HP is developing a “push-button” Wi-Fi security system that will be integrated with some of HP’s Wi-Fi enabled products in the future. The system will be called “SecureEasySetup”.
There is also another unconventional method of protecting your Wi-fi. It’s called “Defendair”. Marketed by Force Field Wireless, it is a latex paint that blocks wireless connections from escaping beyond the walls of your home. The paint sells for $69 a gallon, and comes only in one color—gray.
We have also come across Wi-Fi security from Jiwire that comes free with a year’s subscription of Jiwire’s Hotspot Helper. The subscription will cost you around $25, and the security tool will come bundled with it for no obligation.
So do you have Wi-Fi security? What do you use?
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