Wireless home networks can be dangerous. If not setup properly, you are exposing the files on your computers to any hackers and potentially setting yourself to be accused of criminal activity. You see, if people are going to do illegal things online, they’d rather use a connection that does not belong to them. It offers them an extra layer of protection against getting busted. However, it’s your IP address that gets recorded with such activity, and ultimately your door the police will be knocking on.

Now if you have an unsecured open connection, people will connect to it, either on purpose or by accident, and surf the web on your dime doing who knows what. This could lead to slow speeds on your broadband connection for you if too many people are on it. That is once side of it. The other side is the hackers that will try to get access to your router administration panel and from there try to gain access to your private files on your PC, or install keyboard loggers that record everything you type, just to name a few.Here are a few layers of protection that will ensure this does not happen to you.

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You have a laptop with wireless internet access. You noticed that there are many free public wireless hotspots you can connect to and browse the web on. Many businesses, such as hotels and restaurants offer it as an extra service to entice you to patron their establishment.

However, with such open access comes serious security issues. Here are a few tips to protect yourself when using public Wi-Fi connections.

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