By: Lithium Delta

As an auditor of wireless network security you begin to see weaknesses and strengths of networks. This knowledge can be used to improve your home network, although often forgotten your home network is vital for one reason: Its connected to your computer which contains many password, personal details, bank details and photographs.

Many of people leave this resource freely available for anyone. Anyone could access your network and take that information with basic software. Most passwords are 10 characters and mostly a combination of capital letters, WPA. WPA2 is more advanced and often includes numbers. At the start there was WEP which was only numbers and easy to crack.

To make your password secure and safe there are a few basic steps you can take:

1. Increase the length of the password.

Routers can support passwords up to 62 characters, it would be hard to type it out every time someone new wants to use the network. 99% of hackers will try and crack your password up to 10 characters long and cracking a password that long would only take a few days, anything passed that would take weeks to crack.

2. Restrict the amount of time you use it to 3 hour intervals.

The more data you use the heavier the traffic, that means there is a hight chance of the hacker capturing the data needed to guess your password.

3. Do not use wireless.

Its easier these days to roam your house while browsing but if you use wired connections it is often faster and a hacker will struggle intercepting wireless data.



I hope this has helped those who are concerned about their home or business network.