Users at risk of Wi-Fi breaches
The Get Safe Online campaign held in London today is a government-backed initiative that outlined a number of issues users needed to be aware of when protecting themselves from online attacks, as it found that 7.8 million Britons have insecure home networks.
In order for homeowners to secure their wireless networks, users should switch on the built-in WPA or WEP encryption to prevent casual eavesdropping, rename the network and switch off SSID broadcast so people can't find your network too easily, and use MAC filtering to restrict access to trusted computers.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) told attendees that online hackers can commit identity theft through simple procedures that users would not even be able to detect.
