Protect your own Wi-Fi connections and beware of free public ones

"The man’s house was raided by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week, which later turned out to be a mistake. The reason? Department of Homeland Security agents traced a distributor of child pornography back to the man’s home Wi-Fi router.

The trouble was, the man wasn’t the one distributing the illicit and illegal material -- authorities say it was his neighbor, who was connecting to his Wi-Fi network. The agents didn’t have the wrong house, but it took them a week to determine that they had the wrong suspect."

More where that came from:
Five ways to protect your Wi-Fi network from hackers

http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/7737-five-ways-to-protect-your-wi-fi-network-from-hackers

Actually, this is also for my future reference when changing router. Truth be told, I was given a replacement Wi-Fi router which I have yet to use because I am not sure of our TM Broadband password. My present old router can still be used with cable connection, so I am not disrupting it unless necessary!

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