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Wireless hacking, or "Wardriving"

Wireless hacking, or "Wardriving" is when someone from outside your home accesses your wireless network. In most case it is because the victim doesn't have security enabled on their wireless access point. The dangers of having a non-secure wireless access-point are: Spammers can send junk mail from your home, hackers and criminals can hack remote locations that are tracked back to you, your confidential information is exposed to anyone that parks outside your home with a laptop. You may also suffer some liability because attacks were launched from your home by the bad guys. Listed below are 8 Tips to keep you safe. Top 8 Tips for Wireless Home Network Security 1) Change Default Administrator Passwords (and Usernames) Changing the default password is important because everyone that purchases the same Wireless access device, knows your password. 2) Turn on (Compatible) WPA / WEP Encryption By default, your Wireless device comes without the encryption enab...

TAGGED EMAIL SCAM

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Ooh my God   if you have received an email like the one below know that he or she is not a friend o you in face book, yahoo, hotmail or any other social network. He she is trying to get you into an attention and sign you to tagged or still some information from you. It is usually a scam by tagged to phish   for more people. When you enter the information they ask  then you are  one second a head to get sighed up to to a social  website that you may have never imagined of joining , if possible you have entered that information then  all your friends will be  given invitations to join the social website. It is good that you can be able to know who are the real friends of yours that are inviting you to any website.   It is important also to note any time that you need to go to a website of your bank please never attempt to follow a link in your email. Just type the address on your browser by yourself, if you continue doing that you will on...