How To Secure Wi-Fi From Hackers?

Internet has become more of a necessity rather than a luxury for most of us. All our work and life decisions depend on it, and this becomes are weakness as well.

Hackers know that we are dependent on internet for most of our daily routine tasks, and in here they have the opportunity to strike us when they find us vulnerable.

We connect to internet via 2 mediums
1. Wired (routers)
2. Wire-less (Wi-Fi, Provider/Carrier)

For provider/carrier devices we can secure each device as per it's own needs, however for router we can follow simple tricks such as:

1. Activate encryption
2. Change network name
3. Use a strong password
4. Use VPN
5. Turn off guest networks
6. Enable logging feature

More details mentioned in the article link below. By following above simple rules you now know how to secure wifi from hackers


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