Sabtu, 23 Juni 2007

Secure Your hotspot



The Wifi era was begun, got again bright the development wifi in Indonesia since being released by him the frequency 2.4Ghz his use by the government, so various networks wifi/hotspot began to be widespread in cities in our homeland, but this development was marked please-please concerned by the owners hotspot, frightened of being unaware here!! , his question was how pacified or minimised resiko the security from hotspot we, here Bung wifi, wanted the suggestion love:

1. Activate the use enkripsi WEP and WPA you, the use was so that not just anyone could enter, with this system of each computer had the speaking authority with the fellow member worgroup him, outside the member\no entry\, WEP and WPA also mampu pacified from the act\tapped\the data traffic in the network wifi you, so the data -the data like username, paaword, the account of the bank, the love letter etc., God Willing could be safe, better activate WEP in the level security that the example maximum 128 bit, and the substitute password him periodically, the example 3-4 days very much.

2. Hide Service Set Id (SSID) in your Access Point, because with SSID diset Open, then was easy to be found by the other person that did scanning the network wifi, so this person had the bad intention of entering forcibly the network hotspot you

3. Register MAC address the computer/laptop client you, in fitur MAC Address Filtering in your access point, so that the other computer that want to accessed hotspot you could be protected.

5. That was last, often read in the internet to sites that discussed security, who knew was bug in driver your point access, like that just-barupf this happened in driver wifi notebook the Apple make that memungkin could in attack in a manner re-beads, when necessary update firmware device wifi you, but be careful update firmware could cause the risk of equipment damage wifi you, looked for information beforehand.